457636 - Displays empty or incorrectly filled columns 'Name' for contacts with the empty field 'Display'

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Andrey Lazarev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.17 (20080914)

If the Address Book have some records with the empty 'Display' field - it may display the empty field 'Name'. Sometimes the field 'Name' may be filled from the first part of the e-mail (everything before '@' is displayed as content of the 'Name' field).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new card;
2. Enter 'First name', 'Last name', 'E-mail';
3. *Delete* everything from the 'Display' field;
4. Save and view the card.
Actual Results:  
You will se the card with the first part of the 'E-mail' field in place of the 'Name'. If we've entered something like this:

Name: Adam
Last name: Smyth
e-mail: [e-mail]

Then you will see 'a.s' as the 'Name'.

Expected Results:  
If the field 'Display' is left empty - Thunderbird should always check for 'Name' and 'Last name' first prior to getting the value from the 'E-mail' field. Sometimes different compainies uses 'third part software' to synchronize contacts and such software sometimes leave the field 'Display' blank after the sync.
This logic sounds good:

if (Name.Length == 0 && Lastname.Length == 0)
{
    Display = Email;
}
else
{
    Display = Name + ' ' + Lastname;
}

Something like this

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

The code is working as expected. If you don't want to use the display name, then you can go to View -> Show Name As, and select one of the other options there. This will then use first and last name as expected (and be entirely consistent).

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Per comment 1, RESO INVA.