Bug 169121 - Replace 'Company' with 'Organization' in User Data dialog (and in code)
Summary: Replace 'Company' with 'Organization' in User Data dialog (and in code)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Blocks: User-Profile
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Reported: 2025-10-28 19:58 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-10-30 08:10 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-10-28 19:58:46 UTC 
Our User Data dialog has a field named 'Company'.

This is inappropriate, as it presumes that organizational affiliation is always to a (commercial) company. The label should be changed to 'Organization', which is more general: Companies are organizations, as are foundations, unions, associations, clubs and other entities.

So, let's change that field name - change the label, and also the corresponding naming in the code for consistency. Have a look:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ALibreOffice%2Fcore company&type=code

* SfxDocumentMetaData
* SvtUserOptions
* include files such as strings.hrc and dbui.hrc
* UserDataPart

Also, field names used in some examples.


Note that this is a matter of socio-political significance as well: LibreOffice exists as a proof that not everything needs to happen within companies, and not all organizations have to be companies. So why are we catering to the opposite assumption?
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-10-29 09:54:11 UTC 
Sounds good to me. Needs to be done in line with bug 169123.
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-10-29 19:06:14 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Sounds good to me. Needs to be done in line with bug 169123.

I actually feel those are independent, i.e. you can do this one first, and not reorder the User Data tab right now (or ever); and you could do just the tab field reordering now, keeping the label "Company", then change "Company" to "Organization" later. What's important though is that whoever does any of the two things makes sure they don't step on the toes of the other changes. So, rebase before commit I guess...
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-10-30 08:10:26 UTC 
Code pointer: ./cui/uiconfig/ui/optuserpage.ui