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Bug 767107 - Set a nice host name
Set a nice host name
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-initial-setup
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Initial Setup maintainer(s)
GNOME Initial Setup maintainer(s)
: 679272 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-06-01 13:06 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2018-09-21 16:18 UTC
See Also:
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Description Allan Day 2016-06-01 13:06:27 UTC 
I just installed Fedora 24. After installation the hostname was some techno gibberish. This isn't very helpful in helping people identify the machine, and it doesn't look good in the terminal or in the control center details panel.

It would be great if initial setup could set a hostname based on the user's first name. For example: "Angela's Computer".
Comment 1 Piotr Drąg 2017-03-24 02:30:41 UTC 
I’d just like to add that using names like that doesn’t translate too well to other languages, especially ones with declension.

For example, in Polish you would need to inflect the name to make it “Komputer Angeli” (the genitive of Angela is “Angeli”) or use an extra word, like “Komputer użytkownika Angela” (literally: “A computer of the user Angela”) to make it grammatical. The former is impossible, the latter completely loses the personal touch that you want to achieve and makes it sound robotic.

This problem has been worked around in, as far as I can tell, two other GNOME projects before:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-user-share/tree/src/http.c#n116

https://git.gnome.org/browse/vino/tree/server/vino-mdns.c#n57

Whatever you choose to do here, please keep it in mind.
Comment 2 Ondrej Holy 2017-06-01 08:31:22 UTC 
*** Bug 679272 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-21 16:18:47 UTC 
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