Instructions for user name are misleading
Bug #761180 reported by
Jiri Grönroos
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Translations |
Invalid
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Undecided
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.32.0-0ubuntu7
1. Launch "Users and groups"
2. Click Add
3. A new window opens
This window contains following text:
Username must consist of:
➣ lower case letters from the English alphabet
➣ digits
➣ any of the characters ".", "-" and "_"
Current wording states user name must consist of those characters. However, as not all of those characters are needed, re-wording the sentence would be useful. I'd suggest "User name may be formed by using the following characters:" or something similiar.
Also the user name can not have comma in it (at least not in gnome-system-tools) but I'll report it as a separate bug.
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Indeed the wording could be improved, but I don't think I'll make another upstream release of the gnome-system-tools now that they are deprecated. And since it's been that way in Ubuntu since Lucid, I'm not sure it's worth patching it for Natty (translations...). But I've opened a bug[1 ] against gnome-control- center, which replaces users-admin in GNOME 3 and uses the same string.
About the comma, I don't understand the problem: it's not listed as an allowed character, so it's expected that you can't use it.
I'm closing the Ubuntu translations task as that's not a translation bug at all. On the contrary, for example in French, the wording is better than in English and doesn't suffer from this ambiguity.
1: https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 647851