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Nickname vs. official name #13906

Open MiiuK opened 1 year ago

MiiuK commented 1 year ago

Description:

When I'm a moderator, jitsi overrides the display name (nickname) I've written. I see my nickname, but other participants see my official name. I have to fix situation in settings by pressing “Apply” (even though I do no changes).

Expected behavior:

If the display name of the moderator must be definitely overrided, it would be better, if the official name could be seen also in settings.

Server information:

saghul commented 1 year ago

@damencho We need to discuss what to do here. For Firebase tokens it doesn't matter if we don't override the display name, but if we do, we should override the nickname I guess?

MiiuK commented 1 year ago

How does the system work with PC? Jitsi in Windows hasn't this bug. But also there, in my opinion, best would be, if everyone see the name, which I use in Jitsi - not my name in Google, Facebook or GitHub. I mean it would be good, if display name should be never overrided.

saghul commented 1 year ago

On web / PC I see we use the auth name and that's what shows up in the settings too. We'll check for inconsistencies, thanks for the report!

MiiuK commented 1 year ago

Do you know, @saghul, why the display name must be overrided? Is there some reason?

saghul commented 1 year ago

The general reason is that if a participant is using a token (as you are when using authentication) the token has more authority that the user preference.

MiiuK commented 1 year ago

Really? I haven't known that. But I can however change my name after logging in. Not logical.

saghul commented 1 year ago

This wasn't the case before we introduced authentication, which was not that long ago, so we might still have some rough edges to iron out.

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MiiuK commented 11 months ago

Hi, could you fix this problem, please? We use jitsi in our peer support groups where participants should be anonymous. It is really confusing, that the meeting’s moderator (or someone who has been the moderator earlier) takes part to the meeting with official name, because nick name is overwrited with official name (from Google). We wish moderator can be shown with the name he/she has written to his/her profile.

BR -miiu-

VaibhavBaheti28 commented 8 months ago

Hi, new to open source here, looking forward to contribute! I have been working on the issue and it seems that Google Auth is not provided on the local instance and am unable to test my fix for the same reason. Can you confirm if Google Auth is not available on local instances? In my fix i have always provided the participant.displayName over the participant.name. Does that work or is there any place where participant.name is required over the displayName and will be affected by this change?

saghul commented 8 months ago

Google auth is only available on meet.jit.si. The source of the problem is the name coming from the JWT.

MiiuK commented 4 months ago

Hi, @saghul and others! I'm asking again about this issue. Could some of you, please, fix this bug?

We have a meeting every evening, and that's why we have several moderators. Most of them use Google, when they join a meeting, and even though a moderator writes a nick name to Jitsi's "Enter your name" -box, participants however see moderator's official name from Google.

I'm tired to explain to participants and moderators, why Jitsi shows moderators' official names even though it's against our traditions and principles. I've asked moderators to sign in with GitHub (where they could use their nick names), but they don't want to do so - that's too difficult, they say. (And when they once sign in with Google, they can't sign in with GitHub.)

In addition there is another - small - thing, that's not so nice. If moderator has camera off in Jitsi and he/she has a GitHub profile with no profile picture, Jitsi shows - I think so - some picture taken from profile-picture-generator. I think it would be better to show instead a name's letter.

BR Miiu