<!--IssueSummary start--> <details> <summary> Everyone can contribute. [Help move this issue forward](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/contributor-success/community-contributors-workflows/#contributor-links) while earning points, leveling up and collecting rewards. </summary> - [Close this issue](https://contributors.gitlab.com/manage-issue?action=close&projectId=278964&issueIid=18572) </details> <!--IssueSummary end--> ### Description `@mentions` now show up as `@<username>` in tickets, MR's, etc. When you hover them the user's `Name` is displayed. We run Gitlab in an on-prem enterprise environment connected to Active Directory via LDAP, so our user accounts in Gitlab look like this: - Name: Stefan van Gastel - Username: u00ab12 - Email: s.v.gastel@example.com In your typical issue or MR discussion this results in conversations like this: ``` Love this feature, though @u00ab12 might want to take a look at the test coverage before @u00xy89 can merge it. ``` This requires us to either recognize our colleagues account names or hover every `@mention` to display the name and get the full context of the messsage. ### Proposal To display the users `name` instead of / as a postfix in @mentions like this: ``` Love this feature, though @Stefan van Gastel might want to take a look at the test coverage before @John Doe can merge it. ``` or ``` Love this feature, though @u00ab12 (Stefan van Gastel) might want to take a look at the test coverage before @u00xy89 (John Doe) can merge it. ``` If the way of displaying could be configured as a personal of global Gitlab setting it would not change anything to existing behaviour, only improve it for situations where non descriptive usernames are used. #### Use cases Improves overall readability (and thus productivity) of issues, comments, merge requests, etc in cases where non descriptive usernames are used. ### Feature checklist Make sure these are completed before closing the issue, with a link to the relevant commit. - [ ] [Feature assurance](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/#feature-assurance) - [ ] Documentation - [ ] Added to [features.yml](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/master/data/features.yml)