Confusing File Owner Name in Thunar

Submitted by basilicum

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Link to original bug (#14117)

Description

Description of problem:

Passwd contains the fields:

Username: It is used when user logs in. It should be between 1 and 32

characters in length. User ID Info: The comment field. It allow you to add extra information about the users such as user’s full name, phone number etc. This field use by finger command.

It appears that Thunar shows in the column owner the "User ID Info" followed by the Username in paranthesis. This can be very usefull for a lot of scenario's.

However, I would greatly prefer that Thumar just shows the Username. The reason is that all command line utilities, like ls, show the Username by default. I'm quite sure that a lot of linux users will appreciate this conformity.

Therefor, I suggest to make a configuration option by which the linux standard can be enforced, i.e. showing passwd Username.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Thunar-1.6.13-1.fc27.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always, just configure column to show owner.

Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

Actual results:

Expected results:

Additional info: also listed as bugzilla 1528759