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Email-based instant messaging for Android.
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Android v1.46.5 forces a profile name #3160

Closed Norbert80 closed 1 month ago

Norbert80 commented 2 months ago

I cannot clear the name field of a profile and confirm. DeltaChat v1.46.5 on Android insists on a non-blank name field.

(Workaround was to remove the no longer wanted profile name on v1.46.1 Desktop (Linux) that has the same account. The profile name on Android was immediately synchronized and blanked.)

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r10s commented 2 months ago

the profile name is the most important information others see when you contact them, it is not nice if that is blank for lots of users.

this is not only a personal decision: it would make groups much harder to read and to follow for all participants.

this is even more true when considering chatmail and randomised email addresses.

note that you can enter whatever you like here, there is no need to enter you real name. just something. at best somethings that help ppl to realise who you are, of course.

for these reasons, we enforce setting a name during onboarding. most ppl do not change the name later, so that has a large enough effect already.

Workaround was to remove the no longer wanted profile name on v1.46.1 Desktop (Linux) that has the same account. The profile name on Android was immediately synchronized and blanked.

yes, indeed, changing the name should be consistent across platforms as well.

i'd argue, android is doing fine here, and desktop/ios should not allow the empty string here. however, as said, compared to onboarding, this is a minor

adbenitez commented 1 month ago

@Norbert80 as an alternative, if you really want to set your display name to be just your email address, which is not recommended, you can set the name to your email address that way the field will not be empty

adbenitez commented 1 month ago

I think we can close this issue since it is not a bug but intentional behavior, as explained by @r10s, because a name help people to identify you more easily while addresses can be even random generated, people still can click in the name that appears at the top of the chat to go to the user's profile and see the email address if needed, and the green check-mark + the chat history is also a good indication to verify a person is not impersonating someone, since even your email provider can send fake emails pretending to be you using your address, the green check-mark provides more security than checking email addresses.

Thanks a lot for taking care to report!

Norbert80 commented 1 month ago

Anyway... It should behave the same on ALL plattforms. Are there any plans to harmonize the behaviour?

r10s commented 1 month ago

Are there any plans to harmonize the behaviour?

thanks for the reminder, i also think it makes sense to have that consistent and created issues at https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/issues/2243 and https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues/4042