Project: Drupal Version: 4.5.2 Component: node system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: com2 Reported by: com2 Updated by: com2 Status: patch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/common_1.diff (544 bytes) I had the numbers wrong. In the original code it was cropped at 15, not at 10 like in my diff. I also changed it a bit to avoid negative argaments. Attached the new diff from version 4.5.2. if ($object->uid && $object->name) { // Shorten the name when it is too long or it will break many tables. if (strlen($object->name) > variable_get('user_name_crop', 15)+5) { $name = truncate_utf8($object->name, variable_get('user_name_crop', 15)) .'...'; } else { $name = $object->name; com2 Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 27, 2005 - 17:11 : com2 Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/common_0.diff (546 bytes) Some people might not like it when long usernames are cropped in the node haeder. This patch can be applied to includes/common.inc version 4.5.2 and creates a new variable 'user_name_crop' to adjust the crop length. -- View: http://drupal.org/node/16299 Edit: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/16299