A new user management tool

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Fri May 23 09:19:37 UTC 2008


On 2008-05-22, 18:32 GMT, Steven Garrity wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Comments are welcome. Please note the section on target audience and use
>> cases.
>
> Perhaps a note with the Short Name field on the "Create a new user" 
> dialog explaining the basic limitations (no spaces, special chars, etc.)

Could we just call it "Login name"? This sounds really like a bad 
macintoshism to me -- generating nonsensical name just for sake 
of not sounding like a computerese -- even the Aunt Tillie these 
days knows what login name is, and this duo "Name/Short Name" is 
guaranteed to confuse everybody.

Matěj




More information about the desktop mailing list