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Bug 623287 - When creating a new user, "Shortname" should really be "Username"
When creating a new user, "Shortname" should really be "Username"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: accountsdialog
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Matthias Clasen
Matthias Clasen
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-01 12:50 UTC by Vish
Modified: 2010-07-16 03:18 UTC
See Also:
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Bug 623287 - Change "Short name" to "Username" (14.85 KB, patch)
2010-07-01 14:22 UTC, Milan Bouchet-Valat 		none Details | Review

Description Vish 2010-07-01 12:50:02 UTC 
Bug first reported in lp :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gst/+bug/529744

Description: Ubuntu lucid
Release: 10.04

gnome-system-tools
  Installed: 2.29.91-0ubuntu1

When creating a new user, the dialogue prompt has an entry for "Shortname" 

Expected:
When creating a user I expected to be asked to fill out user-name

What happened instead.
Instead I was prompted to put in shortname.

Screenshot of the bug:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39895142/Screenshot-Create%20New%20User.png

This has been fixed in gnome-settings-daemon in commit:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-system-tools/commit/?id=a9a2f0a15fcc4037b2d4c8c640e25a92dac1072b

But since the same new dialogue is used in Accounts dialog too, I've been asked to file a bug here as well [ https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611453#c5 ]

Could we get the change to "Username" ?
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2010-07-01 14:22:22 UTC 
Created attachment 165032 [details] [review]
Bug 623287 - Change "Short name" to "Username"

This is consistent with GDM's term, and has been reported
to be more explicit. Many websites also use this word.

Fix labels in the New Account dialog, and update object
names in the code to avoid confusion.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2010-07-12 17:28:04 UTC 
Looks ok to me; but I am going to merge the control-center-panel branch soon...