I was looking a bit more into this and it seems to be connected to another problem that also happens in the desktop. The lack of a "grid" to line up the icons. And things like this happen: http://yfrog.com/0picontextoverlap2p The same doesn't happen within the nautilus window and while browsing a folder.
2009/3/28 Christoph 'Gigi' Fuchs <gig...@gmx.at> > Hi Nando, > Hi nautilus-list, > > I just want to say that this is one thing that confuses me too > sometimes. I am very new to this list and not that involved yet, so I > am not sure if there is a patch for this already. > > If anyone has plans to implement this, please keep in mind that it is > often better to shorten long file names by skipping the middle part. > At least in my opinion. So very-very-long-file-name.jpg becomes > very-v...ame.jpg or something similar. > > Cheers, > Gigi > > 2009/3/27 Nando <nand...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any setting to be able to shorten the names bellow the icons in > the > > desktop? > > I wanted to make them like in windows, one line shorten name and ended > with > > '...' (three dots). > > Because it does that but it let the name be spread across 3 lines below > the > > icon, making a big of confusion if some icons are together. > > > > Not sure if this would be easy to change in the code in case it is not > > possible to define somewhere. > > > > Thanks, > > Nando > > > > -- > > nautilus-list mailing list > > nautilus-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list > > >
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