On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 10:25 +0000, Mika Meskanen wrote: > Right, this is an interesting bug to resolve! > > Depending on the width of the login box there's a limit on how many > characters we can display in the name field. Thus, some sort of > truncation and/or abbreviation mechanism is needed. > > Chris, how would you prefer your name to be treated in such case? I can > think of three ways to begin with: > > Christopher James Hals…
This one is least objectionable, but a bit ugly. > Christopher Jam… Rogers > Christopher J H Rogers > Hm. For me, since “Halse Rogers” is my last name and “Christopher” is my first, I'd be happy with “Christopher Halse Rogers” or “Christopher J Halse Rogers”. In general, I'd expect splitting on white space and treating the last token specially would not work well. Even “Chris” would work; if 23 is a hard limit could we instead get the user to add a shortname? Either that, or my username (chris/raof, depending on the system). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827713 Title: Handles long names poorly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/827713/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
