A blog about someones first time with a Linux desktop which mentions Pidgin

Mark Doliner mark at kingant.net
Tue Apr 29 11:48:35 EDT 2008


On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:53:12 -0700, Sean Egan wrote
> Also, I think we've dropped Screen Name in favor of Username for a
> release or two now, right?

I changed Screen Name to Username for error messages in the oscar protocol,
but I didn't change anything in the core.  We should totally do it, though. 
I'll try to do that today.

A fun link:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=username%2C+%22user+name%22%2C+screenname%2C+%22screen+name%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

A ticket concerning the use of "screen name":
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2295

-Mark




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