userselection in polkit-gnome-authorization bad for several hundreds of users

[Alexander Fieroch]

Binary package hint: policykit-gnome

using a NIS-domain in an institute with several hundreds or thousands of users makes it nearly impossible to set special rights to some users. The users list should be sorted by their last name and there should be a scrollbar for faster finding the user to add.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. Although I believe what you're saying, I can't confirm the bug as I don't have enough users on my desktop. It would be great if you could attach a screenshot of the problem before I confirm it.

I'm not sure if this bug has been reported already as I'm having issues with Launchpad at the moment.

Thanks in advance

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Hi, we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Alexander Fieroch (fieroch)]

The screenshot shows the user selection list only for 33 users at once. The display resolution is 1280x1024. We have over 500 users working in our company. Sadly the userlist coming from NIS is not sorted alphanumerically and you have to scroll one bye one to find a special user in the whole list.

Wish:
sort the userlist and show a scrollbar next to the userlist to quickly navigate to a special user for adding him or let the username be typed in by its username directly.