Re: Name display in user menu

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

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