I've been playing with the CVS (August 25, 2004) and it looks awesome. However, I have two questions for which I can't seem to solve myself. (And I'm sure someone would point out that the solution was right under my nose all along.)
1. Now that we have a robust profile system, and all the data in the profiles are stored in the database, I was thinking if it is possible to substitute usernames shown on "submitted by foo" strings with real names that users store in their profile.
For example, suppose you have a Drupal site for the Vatican and His Holiness has a user account. His user name, for argument's sake, is Karol, a small name the elderly pontiff can remember. But, the Cardinals in Vatican do not want to see "submitted by Karol" tagged under anything He posts. They would like to see "submitted by His Holiness Pope John Paul II" instead. Now, in His profile the Pope has writted down his complete official name (and this field in the database is "profile_realname" or something similar).
How can I call the information from the "profile_realnames" field to replace the username value in "%a" in the themes? (See string: "Submitted by %a on %b."). That way the Pope doesn't have to remember to type in really long names but whenever he posts, his real name from the profile shows up as the author name.
2. Is there a way to change the text "not verified" next to the anonymous users names in comments? I think I remember some of the blogging versions of Drupal having a MT-type comment system where names of unregistered people who commented showed up normal without any other tags. I am sure this one is pretty easy and I just can't find it right now.