Do you have 1024x768 display? Anyway this is not a bug, so I moved the post.

This column is same as in b2evo 2, it uses "Preferred name" from user settings.

You most likely changed the "Identity shown:" field in user settings, just select a shorter one.

Yeah, well, it's not the name what seems wrong, but the fact that b2evo chooses to wrap the string that's bound to be typically longer and leave the shorter one unwrapped. This could be considered a cosmetic bug, or not. But the solution would not be to change what appears in the "Author" column.

You can fix it in inc/items/views/_item_list_table.view.php, lines 97-106

else
{ // Author:
	$ItemList->cols[] = array(
			'th' => T_('Author'),
			'th_class' => 'nowrap',
			'td_class' => 'nowrap',
			'order' => 'creator_user_ID',
			'td' => '@get(\'t_author\')@',
		);
}

to

else
{ // Author:
	$ItemList->cols[] = array(
			'th' => T_('Author'),
			'order' => 'creator_user_ID',
			'td' => '@get(\'t_author\')@',
		);
}

Works wonderfully, sam2kb! Thank you very much.

No problem