[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Limit the nick name to be only 8 characters maximum #10737

[Simon Schampijer]

On 03/16/2011 03:29 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>  wrote:
>> Just in case people are wondering: this patch does only affect internal
>> handling. The nick name that is visible in the UI (neighborhood view) is not
>> affected by the limiting. It will be displayed in full length.
>
> And what are the adverse consequences if there is a conflict between
> JoseMariaSuarez and JoseMariaRamirez ?
>
> I think you'd want to show that the potential bugginess is not so bad,
> or else hash the names rather than truncate them.
>   --scott
>

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10737#comment:6

Regards,
    Simon