Hi Leon, On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:08:39 +0100, Leon wrote:
> Lately a colleague, a first-time gnome user, has asked for help to > configure his nautilus to show tidily a dir of books that he collected. How did the long filenames cause "untidiness" then? Was he using list view or icon view? > Unfortunately no one could give an answer. He has then been persuaded to > change to KDE. That sounds like a rigorous solution for a relatively insignificant problem, but at least he is still using Free software :-). > In konqueror or xp explorer, long file name will be truncated with ... > to indicate the missing part. A popup will show the full file name when > mouse is over the item. (Konqueror has this feature for over 2 years) Popup tooltips in the GTK tree/list widget are not possible in the current stable releases, however I think they will be part of the upcoming GTK 2.10. I agree that it would be good to use ellipsis (...) for filenames that do not fit in their column, could you file a bug about this at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ so that the developers don't forget about it? regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
