Question Moderator username vs name

Let's try this again.
If you look at this image, you can see that the posts are attributed to user Amonceleb.
You can see that in the back end this is his NAME. See the blue arrow.

In the moderator list though, his USERNAME is listed, not his NAME. See the green arrow.




In the forum configuration, I have it set to use REALNAMES not USERNAMES (pink arrow)

Thank you very much for the effort you have gone to illustrate your question.

I may not have made my explanation clear in my earlier message. I was trying to say that you have found something for which there is no ready solution.

The settings in the second image you showed do not affect the display shown in the first image. The settings in the second image only affect (to use an example taken from K 1.5 - to save me the trouble of making a new set of images) what you see below:


The [rhetorical?] question I was asking before was, should those settings only affect the username displayed in the message view or should they also extend to the My Topics, Recent Topics and Index views, too? What you have discovered proves that those settings do not extend to those different views. Perhaps that needs to be changed. That's something for the development team to take up.

The basic premise is still the same, however. Moderators' names (username or real names) are not significantly differently treated in the way they are displayed - aside from colourising - than other users. I hope we can agree on that. Yes?

I had hoped that this would have been "fixed" in 1.6 as this is misleading.

It goes beyond My Topics, Recent Topics, etc. For eg. When the a user edits his/her post the edit message shows the username yet the message view may display the Real Name. Personally, I find this a major security breach as the one of the primary reasons we choose the Real Name (I use it for display name) is to hide the username (login name).

Basically if we choose to show the real name we should show the real name everywhere. If we choose the username, we should show the username everywhere. To me this is just common sense.

I fixed this. I am using the A2 template so I have NO IDEA if this will work on any of the others...

Apply this code to /com_kunena/template/A2/threads/showcat.php
/com_kunena/template/A2/view/view.php

Replace the original call to 'COM_KUNENA_GEN_MODERATORS' as follows


<?php
echo '' . JText::_('COM_KUNENA_GEN_MODERATORS') . ": ";
$modlinks = array();
foreach ( $this->modslist as $mod ) {
$modlinks[] = CKunenaLink::GetProfileLink ( intval($mod->userid),$mod->name );
}
echo implode(', ', $modlinks);
?>

Have u tried "Synchronize Users" option - Update user names in messages - This option will reset all author names in posts to username or real name depending on your Kunena configuration. VERY HELPFULL!