[jira] [Commented] (GUACAMOLE-1221) Display user names for active connections in home / All Connections.

["Nick Couchman (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nick Couchman commented on GUACAMOLE-1221:
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There are a couple of challenges to this that I can think of off the top of my head:
* I believe that, currently, the usernames of people who are using a connection is limited to administrative users of Guacamole Client - anything beyond the count of how many is considered privileged information. I'm not sure that I'm in favor of changing that behavior, at least not by default without specifically changing it - I believe this should remain an administrative bit of information.
* I'm not sure how well this would actually scale for other use-cases. While you have connections that only allow a single user, and thus would only display one user's name next to an in-use connection, I know there are other folks using Guacamole who have dozens or hundreds of people using one or more connections, so the ability to display this neatly on the screen would become challenging, at best. I'm open to suggestions on how the user names of 200 people accessing a connection could be displayed on the Home screen next to a connection - a couple of possibilities come to mind with some sort of modal/pop-up, but, given that this is administrative at this point, that information can be obtained already in the Settings page.

> Display user names for active connections in home / All Connections.
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>                 Key: GUACAMOLE-1221
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-1221
>             Project: Guacamole
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: guacamole-client
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.0
>            Reporter: Kurt Westphal
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.4.0
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> Most of our connections are only accessible by one user at a time. The connection is blocked and other users do not know by whom. They cannot negotiate access time. It would be useful to show the current user for such a connection, not just the number of currently connected users.



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