GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 722569
Nautilus shows 'Me' as owner instead of user name
Last modified: 2014-01-19 22:27:41 UTC
re-opening from this ticket : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680282 What happens ============ Nautilus is displaying 'Me' as owner of my files, when 'Me' is not the owner of my files. What should happen ================== I expect Nautilus to display the the owner of a file or folder in the 'Owner' column (and other places like the 'Preferences > Permissions' tab). Version info ============ GNOME nautilus 3.8.2 The owner field in nautilus should always refer to the named user, not a "soft" name : 'Me' or 'me'. Those people who need this field will enable it within nautilus and expect the actual named user be displayed. Notably, displaying the Owner is not enabled by default. Power users should be expected to handle real usernames and times. Reasons include : users could be named 'Me' more often now that the installer is easier for the normal user : >>"Since "me" could be a local username and usernames will probably not be capitalized." I don't believe this is a strong argument to keep the behaviour of displaying "Me".
Thanks for taking the time to write this report. This issue is not fundamentally different form the one which has been reported before. Could you please raise your concerns in the original reports rather than opening a duplicate in order to help us keep our bug tracking system organized? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 680282 ***