Open snwh opened 8 years ago
It would be ideal to put the user account name above the username field in the installer to make this processes easier.
Yeah that too, I forgot to mention that in the original report.
Possibly the code can be pulled from System > Users > Add User
This isn't an issue with code, this is an issue with inventing problems that don't exist. We do not support a spam-click-thru model
So we can only report issues with code?
What? I didn't say that. The answer was in response to code that I could use, and I pointed out this isn't a code issue. I don't really see how this functionality helps. If you can link to something suggesting that this behaviour isn't intrusive and annoying, then yeah I'll consider it
The point of the functionality is to reduce the amount of typing a user does and it be intuitive in doing so.
@ikeydoherty okay, but it read like that to me. 😉
I don't see how this is intrusive and annoying, it is simply a suggestion which I'd argue is helpful. It doesn't even add a step, it removes one for a lot of people and it would only impact those who find the suggested username unsatisfactory and would have to backspace it, which is a very minor trade off (in a text box you already have to interact with).
Most graphical installers I've used have this behaviour: Fedora's, Ubiquity. Even the Mac OS X first-run setup is based on real name (but in this case you have no option to set a username).
I'm not sure what your argument against this is aside from "it promotes click-through" which it does not do, it's a simple time saver.
Most people probably don't have a specific username in mind when they're setting up a user account, and I'd wager the majority of people use a username based on their real name anyway, so suggesting a username would save a few seconds of their install time.
For example, "John Doe" would suggest
jdoe
or "Jane" would suggestjane
And this suggestion mechanism wouldn't inconvenience users who have a specific username in mind (e.g.
soluslover22
) since they'd still have to type it in anyway.