User-friendly backend names

[mikek]

Say, site has no icons for backends (yet). What is an expected workflow to display full backend/provider name to the user? The backend class only stores name, which is good for the slug or db value, not for a title.

The temporary dirty workaround for Django looks like: {{ backend|split:'-'|first|capfirst }} (split is a custom filter). Not all backend names are properly displayed in such a way.

Don't you plan to add a nice (translatable) title to the class or store it in DB?

[omab]

I'm not planing to do so, usually a website enables a few backends and won't iterate over a long backends list, so you will write links in the form <a href="{% url 'social:begin' 'google-oauth2' %}">Google</a>. It might be even simple to create a custom filter in your project that does:

def backend_friendly_name(backend):
    return {
        GoogleOAuth2: 'Google',
        TwitterOAuth: 'Twitter',
        FacebookOAuth2: 'Facebook',
        ...
    }[backend]

[mikek]

I am trying to avoid hardcoding backends and really ended up with a similar custom template tag. Thanks.