Ubuntu
indicator-session package

Redundancy/Incoherence: If the user name appears in the user menu, why the user name appears in the panel?

Bug #964678 reported by Rubén
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Session Menu
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Session Menu 12.10.0
indicator-session (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Why the user name appears on the panel?
If you click the user icon, then appears a menu with the same name.

Three problems:
-Redundancy or Incoherence: The same name appears in the menu.
-Space: With long names is waste of space.
-Design: All the indicator are only icons, no text (less clock).

Example:
This is like if you put the name of network connection, next to the network icon. The same incoherent behavior, because the connection name is in the network menu.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemMenu#title-setting>: "In the System Settings “User Accounts” panel, at the bottom of the pane for your own account should be a checkbox, “Show my login name in the menu bar”, that is unchecked by default for a new user account."

See original description
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug. This however requires design input from the Ayatana team. Hence marking incomplete until further input is received from the design team.

Changed in indicator-session:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in ubuntu:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Omer Akram (om26er)
affects: ubuntu → indicator-session (Ubuntu)
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in indicator-session:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
affects: unity → null
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
no longer affects: null
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Medium → Undecided
status: Fix Committed → New
Revision history for this message
Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote :

Isn't this bug fixed in quantal, with the user name not present by default?

Revision history for this message
Charles Kerr (charlesk) wrote :

Good catch, show-real-name-on-panel *is* disabled by default in Q.

Changed in indicator-session:
milestone: none → 12.10.0
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Nekhelesh, you're right, this is fixed in the sense that the name is now not visible by default. However, it's a bug that you can't turn it on. I've reported bug 1116497 for that.

no longer affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: ayatana-design
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