GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 231005
Contacts from LDAP server show incomplete last name
Last modified: 2013-09-10 13:54:12 UTC
Description of Problem: ----------------------- When displaying Contacts from an LDAP server, Evolution shows incomplete last names for the entries. For example, I have add a user in my test LDAP server as: First Name: Felipe Last Name: Alfaro Solana Evolution displays this user as "Solana, Felipe", instead of displaying "Alfaro Solana, Felipe". This is a problem with Evolution UI: just to make sure the entry was being shown incorrectly I tried: ldapsearch -b"ou=People,dc=home,dc=test" -s one "objectclass=*" And this confirms the last name is "Alfaro Solana". Steps to reproduce the problem: ------------------------------- 1. Create a test entry on your LDAP server. The test entry should have a complex last name, like mine (i.e. "Alfaro Solana") 2. In Evolution, go to Tools->Preferences->Directory Servers and make sure there is an account mapped to the LDAP server used in step 1. 3. Create a new e-mail message. 4. Click the "To:" button 5. From the "Select Contacts from Addressbook", select the LDAP server account from the "Folder" dropdown list (it should appear under a root folder called "Other Contacts") 6. No contacts will appear (another bug), so click "Category" and choose "All Categories" 7. At least one contact will appear, but the one you created in step 1 will display as "Solana, Felipe" instead of being "Alfaro Solana, Felipe". Actual Results: --------------- The Contacts component of Evolution has problems dealing with contacts name whose last name is formed by two or more words. Expected Results: ----------------- Evolution should correctly display entries with complex last names. How often does this happen? ---------------------------- Always Additional Information: ----------------------- NOTE: Just to make this clearer, the Evolution UI address does not display the first word of entries whose last name has more than one word. For example: 1. If the last name is "Alfaro Solana" and the first name is "Felipe", Evolution displays "Solana, Felipe". 2. If the last name is "User Number One" and the first name is "Test", Evolution displays "Number One, Test".
Still valid in 1.5.4
retargetting from very ancient 2.1 milestones to just ancient 2.3 milestones. it just sucks to click several target milestone values. sorry for the noise.
retargetting bugs with severity=major from 2.3 to 2.5
Problem is with western name parsing.
This works fine for me. So i hope this has been fixed. Can you please try with some latest version of evolution and check this. Closing this as fixed, please reopen if you find this happening again.