Bug#651059: gnome-panel: Please reduce the size of the user status menu

[Marcus Comstedt]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 3.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The new "user status menu" isn't half bad, but one thing really irks
me about it:  that it always displays the full user name in the panel.
This eats up a lot of panel space (especially for people with long names)
for no good reason (I can remember my own name just fine without having
it constantly displayed on the screen, thank you very much).

Please provide a setting to remove the user name (having just the icon),
or at least to replace it with something shorter (UNIX account name,
a gravatar, or whatever).

Thanks


  // Marcus


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.2.1-1                
ii  gnome-menus                3.2.0.1-2              
ii  gnome-panel-data           3.0.2-1                
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.2.0-2                
ii  libc6                      2.13-21                
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.10.2-6.1             
ii  libcairo2                  1.10.2-6.1             
ii  libcamel-1.2-23            3.0.3-2                
ii  libdconf0                  0.7.5-3                
ii  libebook1.2-10             3.0.3-2                
ii  libecal1.2-8               3.0.3-2                
ii  libedataserver1.2-14       3.0.3-2                
ii  libedataserverui-3.0-0     3.0.3-2                
ii  libfontconfig1             2.8.0-3                
ii  libfreetype6               2.4.8-1                
ii  libgconf2-4                2.32.4-1               
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.24.0-1               
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.30.2-4               
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-0       3.0.2-2                
ii  libgnome-menu2             3.0.1-4                
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.0.12-2               
ii  libgweather-3-0            3.2.1-1                
ii  libical0                   0.44-3                 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.7-2              
ii  libnspr4-0d                4.8.9-1                
ii  libnss3-1d                 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1
ii  libpanel-applet-4-0        3.0.2-1                
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.29.4-2               
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.34.2-1               
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.0-2              
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.34.3-1               
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.7.9-2                
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.12-1                 
ii  libtelepathy-glib0         0.16.2-1               
ii  libwnck-3-0                3.2.1-1                
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.4.4-4              
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.6-4              
ii  libxml2                    2.7.8.dfsg-5           
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.3.2-2              
ii  python                     2.7.2-9                
ii  python-gconf               2.28.1-3               

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte               0.13.2-3 
ii  evolution-data-server  3.0.3-2  
ii  gnome-applets          3.2.1-1  
ii  gnome-control-center   1:3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.2.1.2-1
ii  gnome-session          3.0.2-3  
ii  gvfs                   1.8.2-2  

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser                      3.2.1-2        
ii  evolution                             3.0.3-3        
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.0.1-1        
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user-guide]  3.2.2-1        
ii  kterm [x-terminal-emulator]           6.2.0-46       
ii  nautilus                              3.0.2-4        
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           276-1          
ii  yelp                                  3.2.1+dfsg-1+b1

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