Re: Author setting in cell comments

[David Jennings <mail davidjennings net>]

Thanks John, that's very helpful.

I'll try compiling a version with that line commented out. If I'm going 
to go to the effort of compiling and installing should I use the source 
for the currently installed 1.12.17 version (Ubuntu 14.04), or should I 
go with the latest from git?

Dave.

On 17/11/15 00:12, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> I had a quick look at the sources for you. Gnumeric is calling
> g_get_real_name():
>
>    https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/tree/src/dialogs/dialog-cell-comment.c#n143
>
> Which reads the password file:
>
>    https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functions.html#g-get-real-name
>
> Looking at the glib sources, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to
> disable this behaviour.
>
> The simplest solution would probably be to comment that line out of
> the gnumeric sources and build your own version. If you cook up a
> patch to remember the user's previous setting I imagine it would be
> welcomed.
>
> You could also change your real name in the passwd table to include a
> non-utf-8 character, but of course that might break some strange
> things.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> On 16 November 2015 at 12:50, David Jennings <mail davidjennings net> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm going to try this question again. I can't believe that no-one knows the
> > answer.
> >
> > In Gnumeric 1.12.17 whenever I create a comment on a cell it prefills New
> > Author with my name. I would rather it didn't do that but I can't find where
> > it's set.
> >
> > Where does the cell comment dialog get the Author name from?
> >
> > Thanks, David.
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