Middle name not supported

Bug #1585634 reported by Víctor R. Ruiz
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Fix Released
High
Bill Filler
dialer-app (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho
telephony-service (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Test case.
- Open address book.
- Create a contact with forename, middle name and last name.
- Open dialer app.
- Select the contact with middle name.

Expected result.
- Dialer app displays the full name.

Actual result.
- Dialer app only displays forename and last name.

Related branches

Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in dialer-app (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in dialer-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Confirmed
milestone: none → 12
Revision history for this message
Víctor R. Ruiz (vrruiz) wrote :

The name should be "George R.R. Martin".

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Bob Harvey (bobharvey) wrote :

I'd like to point out that my Spanish friends have three names and are universally known by the first and middle. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_customs_of_Hispanic_America

I have observed that Iberians use the first&second names for general use, and email addresses, and people from the other side of the atlantic first&third. I don't think this is a hard and fast rule. I expect many ubuntu contributors know a lot about this!

My Sikh friends also use thier first&second names, because the second surname is almost invariabley Singh or Kaur (it does not /have/ to be)

I have four names, and would expect both my middle names to be represented.

My father had seven, and insisted on all of them all the time.

And then there is the issue of diminutives and customary contractsion....

Revision history for this message
Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote :

Need to make sure notifications for incoming text and phone calls correctly show full name as well

Changed in dialer-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Medium → High
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in telephony-service (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Except possibly in the Contacts app itself (where you might want to sort by last name), a contact’s display name should always consist of the same characters in the same order.

The method of calculating this display name will become more complex over time, as it grows to include code for handling middle names, nicknames, suffixes, line breaks, tab characters, contacts with no name but multiple phone numbers, and other quirks.

I don’t think it’s sensible to expect every place that uses a display name to include an exact copy of this code, and for us to remember every callsite whenever we change it. So I’ve added middle names to the “Contact display name” algorithm, which I wrote for group chat feature, and proposed it to be used for contacts in general. <https://goo.gl/LVzFF0>

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package telephony-service - 0.1+16.10.20160601.1-0ubuntu1

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telephony-service (0.1+16.10.20160601.1-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Contact name now checks for QContactDisplayLabel to display full
    name when possible. (LP: #1585634)

 -- Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:08:55 +0000

Changed in telephony-service (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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