Share Dialog: duplicate displaynames cannot be distinguished

[DeepDiver1975]

Assuming two different users have the same full name/display name
e.g. Thomas Müller 😉 - the most common name in Germany
there is no way to distinguish them in the share drop down.

Possible solution:
Adding the user id or email address in brackets - maybe user backend specific

Example:
Thomas Müller (thomas@müller.net)

@jancborchardt @blizzz @karlitschek

[blizzz]

From the LDAP perspective, the good solution is to be able to compile the display name of a set of attributes, like " ()" or " ()", to follow a backend-specific approach.

It may be more interesting to add other details only on a "displayName collision", but it has the disadvantage that we would need to know every displayname of every user.

[jancborchardt]

Yes, the solution could be adding additional info in brackets after the name. But please only if there is actually a conflict, not for everyone.

[blizzz]

Can be achieved in the set of names that are fetched with the request, but not those that are already fetched. For sharing it's probably not a big deal anyway. But not for all users.

[jancborchardt]

Another enhancement here would be to add the user image and put it to the left of the name – that’s also what we introduced the avatars for.

[blizzz]

Another enhancement here would be to add the user image and put it to the left of the name – that’s also what we introduced the avatars for.

I fancy this.

[alekiy]

We are facing the same problem. The UID in brackets after the display name would be nice. 👍

[blizzz]

There's another problem. If there are severl Thomas Müllersens and they are differentiated in the share dialogue, that's fine. But names are also shown when they share files with you. In that case you need the detail as well, and/or the avatar, but at that point of time we do not know about name collisions.

[jancborchardt]

So – can we show the avatars next to the name? Both in the share dialog and in the autocomplete dropdown would be good.

[PVince81]

Avatars are already displayed now in 8.1.1
But if the users have no avatar, then you'd see both "Thomas Müller" with a "T" avatar, wouldn't help much.

[jancborchardt]

Closing this in favor of the newer issue #20291