Use username throughout the UI to reference users instead of full name. #836

Gitea UI uses username to reference users mostly but at some places it uses the full name instead of the username of the user. Like for example, the full names are used in the commit history, reaction references (tooltip), etc. Whereas the usernames are used in issue discussions, pull requests, etc.

I personaly find it very confusing, and quite a few times made the mistake of thinking a user is different (from another user) only to notice later that I was actually looking at the full name rather than the username and both the users are same.

Yes! Just wanted to note that I've continiously gotten confused by this as well.

Might be good to collect a list.

First thing in my head:

• reactions to issuse / comments

Second: email subject when receiving a notification :-).

This list basically writes itself in this thread. ;-)

Organization name display, e.g. in settings

Title for Avatars in comments (left).

Only visible on hover though.

Edit: Also in participant list but there is also a custom one with the username.

#930 is an important piece to consider.

Upstream PR: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/24087

Oh, didn't know that this was an issue. Glad to see that I'm not the only one that noticed the same problems, please do let me know if you think that my work is in any way counterproductive here.

Is this the correct config file used for the deployment of the forgejo instance https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/forgejo/src/branch/codeberg-7/custom/conf/app.example.ini#L1297? It seems that the option DEFAULT_SHOW_FULL_NAME is not set. See also forgejo/forgejo#4287. I’d prefer to see the full name everywhere, but currently it is weird to have at some places the full name and others the username on https://codeberg.org.

Edit: Related commit with introduction of this feature from 5 years ago: forgejo/forgejo@4508380cf7

No, this is just the default config file from Forgejo ("example"). The relevant config for Codeberg is in https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/build-deploy-forgejo/src/branch/codeberg-7/etc/gitea/conf ("base" and "gitea-production" apply).

We can try this setting, but as I understand it, it would replace the username with the full name. Which has issues on its own. There should be one consistent way across Forgejo instances, and I'd even recommend to remove the setting. This will take some time, but I'll try to do some user research on this.

Indeed, it replaces the username with full name in many places. This would mean that this very open issue that asks for username instead of full name would be worsened again.

Indeed, it replaces the username with full name in many places. This would mean that this very open issue that asks for username instead of full name would be worsened again.

Or improved ;) as it is clearly a matter of taste ... (See motivation in the issue description of forgejo/forgejo#4287). Anyhow, thanks for your follow-up. Certainly, this is not the most urgent issue to solve ;)