[Galene] Re: Is the passwd file still needed?

["Rémi Nollet" <nollet@irif.fr>]

I feel permitted to a bit of bike-shedding.

If the user groups you want to create have the same semantics as Unix 
groups, and if this is the right semantics to use, I would also go for 
naming them “groups” and finding something else for current “groups”. I 
feel like it would help the administrators to make correct quick guesses 
so as to how those user groups work.

If you then need a replacement name for current “groups”, I also happen 
to like “room”. For the end-user, they are nothing but a rendezvous 
point, a location in which we can meet and talk to and see each other. 
But if rooms are not the usual places where we meet people we want to 
talk with, maybe we can try something like “bar”, “pub”, “table”? Not 
sure what impression it will give to the user though. :-)

Also, I for one like real-life metaphors. They make easier to remember 
names and to build a mental model. At least for me.

-- Rémi