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, jcup...@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 <m...@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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