Sorry, I'm not a Gnumeric dev, I don't know what state git master is in. Most projects keep it in a pretty good state, though some newer features may be slightly half-baked.
It's usually safest to build from a release tarball. 1.12.24 seems to be the latest. On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 at 23:29, David Jennings <m...@davidjennings.net> wrote: > 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. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnumeric-list mailing list > >> gnumeric-list@gnome.org > >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >
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