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Bug 92111 - the home icon should use your actual first name from /etc/passwd and not your log-in
the home icon should use your actual first name from /etc/passwd and not your...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 138550 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-30 12:28 UTC by Thomas Vander Stichele
Modified: 2010-06-11 17:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Thomas Vander Stichele 2002-08-30 12:28:03 UTC 
Description of Problem:

It would be nice if the home icon had your actual
first name instead of your log-in.  Especially
since home is spelled "Home" with a capital, it's
silly that your log-in (which probably is
lower-case) would be lowercase.

Simple fix would probably be to look up the first
name in /etc/passwd.
Comment 1 Aschwin van der Woude 2002-10-31 21:47:10 UTC 
Off course it shouldn't look into passwd directly but through the use
of the proper library. Authentication and thus user-info might come
from other sources like LDAP.
Comment 2 Sean Middleditch 2003-02-07 20:48:10 UTC 
This could be a bit of a problem, I think, for several reasons; first,
how do you tell what part is the first name for real?  What if someone
puts "Sir Sean of Middleditch" or whatnot in there - Sir is not the
first name, Sean is.  Hard to tell...

The best idea would probably be for GNOME to store a name (including
separate Title, Given Name, Surname, etc.), and being able to use
that.  That would make configuring things like, say, Evolution, a lot
easier, since it could automatically pull your default identity from
the GNOME setup.
Comment 3 Dave Camp 2003-03-31 20:20:22 UTC 
I might be totally wrong, but I seem to remember there being concerns
in some cultures with the politeness of software being on a first-name
basis with the user.
Comment 4 Tim Herold 2004-05-09 13:29:29 UTC 
*** Bug 138550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Tim Herold 2004-05-09 13:31:33 UTC 
Bug 138550 adds the idea of using the user's full name.
Comment 6 Khaled Hosny 2007-06-08 11:47:13 UTC 
Though this a somewhat late, but I think this is a good idea specially from multilingual point of view, the ascii-only login name looks odd with my Arabic desktop.
Comment 7 Allan Day 2010-06-11 17:04:27 UTC 
Wow, old bug. We're targetting having a consistent name for home locations across Nautilus. Everything is just going to be called "Home": see bug 341894. As a result, I'm closing this as not a bug. Let me know if I'm wrong about this though. :)