Implemented more suggestions by Keith:

- Made sure the 'Topic' title is only shown above the topics, not the icons.

- Automatically shorten the username when it is too long.  I implemented this
  as part of format_name() and could therefore nuke some code in the
  statistics module.  This is change is somewhat experimental and I'm willing
  to revert or change this if a number of people aren't too happy with this
  behavior.

- Left align the dates and authors: makes it easier/faster to scan.

- Made the little tablesort arrows clickable.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/includes/common.inc b/includes/common.inc
index 60a383603..e5c23fcab 100644
--- a/includes/common.inc
+++ b/includes/common.inc
@@ -822,11 +822,23 @@ function format_date($timestamp, $type = "medium", $format = "") {
 function format_name($object) {
 
   if ($object->uid && $object->name) {
+    /*
+    ** Shorten the name when it is too long or it will break many
+    ** tables.
+    */
+
+    if (strlen($object->name) > 20) {
+      $name = substr($object->name, 0, 15) ."...";
+    }
+    else {
+      $name = $object->name;
+    }
+
     if (arg(0) == "admin") {
-      $output = l($object->name, "admin/user/edit/$object->uid", array("title" => t("Administer user profile.")));
+      $output = l($name, "admin/user/edit/$object->uid", array("title" => t("Administer user profile.")));
     }
     else {
-      $output = l($object->name, "user/view/$object->uid", array("title" => t("View user profile.")));
+      $output = l($name, "user/view/$object->uid", array("title" => t("View user profile.")));
     }
   }
   else if ($object->name) {