Reinout van Schouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? >
Icon view. Sometimes list view is not an option for example on the desktop. > >> 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? Funny story, this bug has been filed slightly more than 4 years ago. Here is the link: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84390 Can somebody raise the priority of the bug? As a DE values usability and simplicity this much as gnome, it will be a shame to see this bug hang around for another 4 year. > > regards, > > -- > Reinout van Schouwen -- Leon -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
