new user creation module in firstboot

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 21:26 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> I'm a desktop user. I want to select my user id. This is a flaw in the
> current user creation module; if we're changing it, now's the time to fix
> it.
> 
> Good design makes easy things easy and more complicated things possible.

It also hides irrelevant things. 

Why do you need to select a specific user id when creating a new user ?
I guess you are not creating a new user at all, but trying to recreate
an existing one, to reuse the home directory, etc. Right ?