[opensource-dev] What was the point of display names?

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2010-11-07, at 16:33, Bunny Halberd wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Ricky <kf6kjg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And to a simplified logon process using OpenID or other tools.

> Oh yeah, how could I forget about that? :)

There's no reason they couldn't accept "bunny.halberd" or "Bunny Halberd" as a login, and let people use "first.last at ..." for other services. Anyone who's up to dealing with third party services could manage that.

Basically, the only benefit Display Names provides that couldn't be implemented in the existing framework is Unicode titles.

And I'm still ticked off that my suggestion for a *new* merged account name was considered a justification for Display Names. Display Names satisfy none of the goals of that suggestion.