Hi Kris,

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 00:44:27 Kris Steinhoff wrote:

I've submitted a patch (http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485212) that gives RoundCube the ability to dynamically generate a contact's display name by concatenating the first and last name fields and it also eliminates the separate display name field.

A lot of people actually prefer reading a name (and being called so) "last name first name" 1.

It may also happen that an address book contains both entries of people who prefer to be called "first name last name" *and* people who are used to being called "last name first name" - so there is a reason for having a display name field.

Cheers, Patrick.

I agree with you Jim that many groups of users use the Display Name as a nickname field. This is more important if used in small organizations for nicknames and such but is still important for large groups of users as well. Auto populating the field with a default format is a good idea...better would be to have the auto population have options to set the default like First Name, Last Name or Last Name, First Name

Either way the field is important, used, and follows suit with other webmail client projects.

Pat

I also find it common that my users put nicknames in the Display Name rather

than any combination of first or last. For instance, they might put "Bobby" in the display name, but "Robert Blahblah" in the first/last field.

I wouldn't want to see "Display Name" go away entirely, but having it automatically populated (if blank) from First and Last is a good idea.

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