Having to scroll through a huge list of users is a pain. The discussion at https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/406 focused on the security issues of displaying the available usernames. There are cases where displaying the names is preferred, but this could be done in a more space efficient way (e.g. over multiple lines, with vertical scrolling for very large numbers). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Create a large number of users and try to login. Actual Results: You need to scroll through a huge list. Expected Results: You can select the username without (or with limited) scrolling.
I agree that our default design is inadequate when there are a lot of users. We could have another theme where manual input is default. Not sure how feasible it is to have a combobox of sorts of users though.
Could you attach a picture of what it looks like when it's in this sub-optimal view today? The UI has changed a lot in the intervening years and the theme no longer displays a horizontal row of icons when there are more than 10 users.
(I don't run into this use case anymore, so I'll let you hash this out :))
Thanks, sounds like it's been fixed by the 10-user maximum limit on showing the icon row.