32885 - Store the user's full name as part of profile data

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

There is a RFE for identification of current profile (b23260) that requires this 
feature, we also need this to be able to do things like say "Bookmarks for Ben 
Goodger" etc. 

This is, in essence, a 'pretty name' for the profile. If the back end for this 
is supplied, I can hook up a front end for it via the Profile Wizard.

Comment 1

[selmer (gone)]

The problem is, we've never wanted to make full name part of the profile wizard.
 Part of this is that it feels intrusive because people don't understand why
we're asking and part of this is that we'll get it when they run the mail
account wizard. Can you wait until mail has collected it?  If not, how can we
mitigate the perception of invasion of privacy?

Given the info, storing it in the registry is no big deal.  Let's make sure we
have the full design first.

Comment 2

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

people are often asked their full name as part of installing software. this is 
not a new concept.. in fact most software asks for it - the Activation portion 
of our install even does ;P

Comment 3

[selmer (gone)]

Good point:-)  Now I remember that we wanted to get the name from there when we 
can.

Comment 4

[racham]

Doing a mass reassign to Conrad Carlen.

Conrad is going address all current and upcoming profile manager issues. Please
do not hesitate to involve me in any of the issues.

Comment 5

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

This would be an easy thing to do. Problem is, if other components used
nsIProfile to get the user name, it would spread references to nsIProfile which
we want to avoid. Right now, there are almost no refs to it from other
components. This is needed for embedding applications which are not using profiles.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

changing QA contact

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 8

[Andrew Hagen]

Invasion of privacy is not an issue here. If any user is concerned about it,
they can just use a nickname or a false name. All/all. 

Comment 9

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

See comment 5. If we need to do this, it shouldn't be done with profile mgr.