[Galene] Re: reject spaces in username

[Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>]

> It turned out that people used user names like "Ernie and Bert" with
> spaces. Obviously this does not work especially for chat commands with
> more than one argument.

It does, you just need to put the username in double quotes:

    /present "Ernie and Bert"
    /msg "Ernie and Bert" Don't use spaces in your username!

> So I'd rather want Galène to reject spaces in usernames.

We used to reject spaces, but people complained, especially for formal
meetings where people are asked to use their full name.  I can add an
option to reject spaces, but the default will remain.

> As interims solution I will try to hack galene.html and add a pattern
> attribute to <input id="username"> [1] but I'm not sure whether this
> causes any issue in Javascript parts.

Yeah, that's a good solution.  But it won't get upstream, for the reasons
outlined above.

-- Juliusz