Version: (using KDE 4.4.0) OS: Linux Installed from: openSUSE RPMs If username has dot in it then in file attributes it is displayed as follows, e.g. username = j.black group = swdev considering this, the owner column has the value 'j' and the group column has the value 'black.swdev'
Thanks for the report, but could you please add more information about which user interface element you are talking? E. g. the details view, the Information Panel, the Properties Dialog...
Sorry, I indeed had to be more specific. I'm talking about the view of files in the directory (Looks like QTreeWidget). The list displays file names, date of creation, size, permissions and these owner and group column. I'm don't know whether the next fact matters or not, but I have encountered this while browsing remote FS via ssh (fish://). Thanks.
OK, thanks for the update!
The fish kioslave was using the '.' character as the delimiter for username and group. I switched it over to use ':' as the delimiter since that isn't a valid character for usernames or groups. A patch for kdebase is attached.
The patch landed on a wrong report (bug 227540), it is here https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=41677
I threw this up on the reviewboard if someone wants to take a look: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3442/
SVN commit 1114183 by glenkaukola: fish kioslave delimiter fix. Changed '.' delimiter to ':', as '.' is valid in usernames/groups. BUG: 227678 M +1 -1 fish.cpp M +1 -1 fish.pl WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1114183