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". -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
