[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs Bug: 2485

[Frederick Grose]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org>wrote:

> Personally I don't think this would break a multi-line fancy name unless
> the desired effect is to override the centering of every line.  How they
> added the extra linefeeds in the middle would be another discussion and
> point we need to know.
>
>
> If we do want to support fancy names, etc., we are going to have to come
> up with ways of testing them to make sure that the rest of the system
> tolerates them.  Names do not always appear alone.
>
>
> In general for non-fancy users, I believe we should try and trim
> whitespace around names, journal entries, etc. because most users likely
> did not mean to add it there .  While one could make fancy names, and
> add leading whitespace to filenames to override sorting as well, this
> actually does violate at least a few file system specs, regardless of
> what shell prompts seem to tolerate.


Perhaps Jordan's new team could investigate those implications if they
continue with the proposed change.

Perhaps, as you've suggested, the greatest benefit would be for the new
Learner who unintentionally enters whitespace on their initial registration,
and the proposed strip code should be limited to that event.

Best wishes,

      --Fred
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