Suggest A Username based on Real Name

[snwh]

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 suggest jane

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.

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[philipzae]

It would be ideal to put the user account name above the username field in the installer to make this processes easier.

[snwh]

Yeah that too, I forgot to mention that in the original report.

[philipzae]

Possibly the code can be pulled from System > Users > Add User

[ikeydoherty]

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

[snwh]

So we can only report issues with code?

[ikeydoherty]

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

[philipzae]

The point of the functionality is to reduce the amount of typing a user does and it be intuitive in doing so.

[snwh]

@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).

[snwh]

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.