Suggestion: use Display Name instead of username on Dashboard, Calendar and QuickSettings

[D3vil0p3r]

On Linux, a user has mainly two "names": username and display name. The username is used for identifying the user at system level, for example during the login, while the display name is the Full Name (i.e., Name and Surname) of the user.

When a user is created, username and display name must be specified. The difference between these two names is mainly that the username is shown all in lowercase letter and cannot have space and uppercase letters, for example johndoe. The display name can use Upper case letters, so an example could be John.

Currently, Aylur's widgets Dashboard uses username that is shown (my username is athena and my display name is Athena):

Indeed, as shown on the image above, athena username is shown. In general, it could be more correct that the message on the Dashboard should be:

Athena
Good Afternoon!

instead of:

athena
Good Afternoon!

Another example could be:

John
Good Afternoon!

instead of:

johndoe
Good Afternoon!

In Linux, one of the commands for getting the Display Name of the user account is: getent passwd "$USER" | cut -d ':' -f 5 | cut -d ',' -f 1. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/833227/whats-the-easiest-way-to-get-a-users-full-name-on-a-linux-posix-system

Is it possible to show on the Dashboard the Display Name of the user account instead of the username?

The files that should be edited should be:

• extensions/dateMenuTweaks.js
• extensions/quickSettingsTweaks.js
• shared/dashWidgets.js

[D3vil0p3r]

Thank you man. Just for info for all users that wish to set the Real Username now:

Go on Aylur's Widgets Settings:

• -> Dashboard -> User -> enable Show Real Name.
• -> Quick Settings Tweaks -> enable Show Real Name.
• -> Date Menu Tweaks -> expand Enable Custom Menu -> expand Show User Icon -> enable Show Real Name