On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:19 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
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
We're following the recommendations of gnome documentation team here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2008-April/msg00028.html
login (n., adj.)
The act of logging in to a computer, or something related to
logging in to a computer. Do not use "login" or "login name"
as a synonym for username. Do not use "logon".