Understood - I confused this fix with your "Ditto" reference. Upon re-reading your email I now realize your "Ditto" was in reference to upstream -vs- downstream solutions. Not the methodology used to fix long names. Sorry for the confusion.
Rich On 8/15/05, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, den 15.08.2005, 12:54 -0500 schrieb Richard Mancusi: > > Thank you - I am learning and appreciate your help. Is that the same > > place the icon issue goes? > > What do you mean by "the icon issue"? My second mail in the thread [2] > contained instructions how you can resolve your icon problem, i.e. by > grabbing and building/installing the official gnome 2.12 beta2 > gnome-icon-theme tarball [3]. > > > > > > On 8/12/05, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2005, 11:20 -0500 schrieb Richard Mancusi: > > > > > > > I wonder why you need the short MIME descriptions. > > > > > > Long file names + Long MIME descriptions = list view data pushed > > > > > > off the screen. Users don't like to constantly scroll over. Your > > > > > > PNG > > > > > > example is exactly what I mean. OpenOffice isn't far behind: > > > > > > "OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet" how about "OpenOffice Calc" > > > > > > > > > > Sounds reasonable. Are you willing to bring this up on xdg or should I > > > > > take care of this? > > > > > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-August/007248.html > > [2] > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-August/msg00111.html > [3] > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.11/2.11.91/sources/gnome-icon-theme-2.11.91.tar.bz2 > > -- > Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDAOWvWfvsaU5lO4kRAnrGAJ9uwkBwL7yeRnlDwSf6QvYGAI635ACgpqB1 > frKmc0UMenCBxDjm8dFEUjo= > =dRGT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
