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Bug 647851 - Improve wording of sentence about new user name
Improve wording of sentence about new user name
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: User Accounts
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-15 10:01 UTC by Milan Bouchet-Valat
Modified: 2011-07-11 08:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.91/3.0


Attachments
Patch to add the word 'only' to improve the wording (1.33 KB, patch)
2011-07-08 12:17 UTC, Robert Roth
none Details | Review

Description Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-04-15 10:01:32 UTC
In the new user dialog, there are instructions about characters that can be contained in a username:
> Username must consist of:
>   ➣ lower case letters from the English alphabet
>   ➣ digits
>   ➣ any of the characters ".", "-" and "_"

A user reported the phrasing can be misleading, as it may be understood as meaning that the username *must* contain all of these characters. This is indeed a common pattern on some website giving access to sensitive data, to force user to have a number and an upper case letter in their username.

Reporter suggested changing the wording to "User name may be formed by using the following characters:". We could also simply change it to "Username must only consist of:".

Translations could probably be kept as-is since they have likely rephrased the whole think to be meaningful (at least that's what I'm seeing in French).

This string is at
panels/user-accounts/um-account-dialog.c:195
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-04-26 13:28:09 UTC
I agree, adding an 'only' there would make things clearer
Comment 2 Robert Roth 2011-07-08 12:17:44 UTC
Created attachment 191516 [details] [review]
Patch to add the word 'only' to improve the wording

Simple patch to fix the problem.
Comment 3 Rodrigo Moya 2011-07-11 08:01:17 UTC
Thanks for the patch, this is now in git master