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Bug 549349 - Show login and not just user names
Show login and not just user names
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.23.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-25 19:50 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2013-12-16 19:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Handle duplicate real names from the user manager (13.37 KB, patch)
2008-11-09 17:38 UTC, Dan Nicholson 		committed Details | Review

Description Vincent Untz 2008-08-25 19:50:30 UTC 
Forwarding https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=418081

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My login screen lists three users, by name only: Michael Wolf, Michael Wolf,
and Mr. Test.

As it happens, the first is for work use, with the username mw.  The second is
for personal use, with the username maw.  The third is for testing purposes.

I can only tell which Michael Wolf corresponds to which account by holding the
mouse over the text and waiting for the tooltip to pop up.

Maybe it would be better to include login names along with usernames (at least
in some special cases like this one).
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Comment 1 Dan Nicholson 2008-11-09 17:38:24 UTC 
Created attachment 122274 [details] [review]
Handle duplicate real names from the user manager

This patch adds a new GdmUser field, display_name, that acts as a unique display name. It is "Real Name" when the user has a unique real name, or "Real Name (username)" when there are duplicates.

It works pretty well in my testing, but "on-the fly" updates of passwd don't seem to cause updates of existing users.

Patch is against SVN, but I think it should apply to 2.23/2.24.
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-07-17 20:43:02 UTC 
Thanks, pushed.   Sorry for the long delay.
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2010-06-08 05:11:13 UTC 
Reopening.  I don't like this change much.
Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-12-16 19:20:12 UTC 
closing again, since things have shuffled around so much since 2010.  if there's still a bug here, it would need to be filed against gnome-shell