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List:       gnome
Subject:    Re: Name display in user menu
From:       Shaun McCance <shaunm () gnome ! org>
Date:       2011-06-15 18:45:05
Message-ID: 1308163505.2142.642.camel () recto
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On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:18 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Quoting "Frederic Muller" <fredm@gnome.org>:
> > However if you remove it where would you put the drop down menu linked to it?
> 
> Not sure, but something smaller and "neutral"? In my office
> (GNOME2) it is "System" which I like better. Maybe I should
> change my real name to "System" in /etc/passwd :~)
> 
> Btw. I wonder what happens, if somebody has a really long name?
> "Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawud al
> Gossarah" or "Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp
> Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg" come to
> my mind...

It ellipsizes when it runs out of space.

--
Shaun


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