GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 550215
Long directory names dissapear location bar buttons
Last modified: 2008-11-11 11:22:52 UTC
If you have a long directory name and resize the window so the corresponding location bar button is wider than the window itself, then the the navigation bar will blank (see screenshot). I think that the correct behaviour should be to ellipsize the label of the long button.
Created attachment 117765 [details] Location bar bug EVIL.
I opened a very similar bug at launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/272792 "If you create a folder with a really long name it will somehow mess with the pathbar buttons, so nothing will be shown. Try to create a folder and call it "a folder with a really really long name that does not actually fit the address bar as it should". Open it and see what happens: the pathbar buttons, as well as the view and zoom buttons, disappear from the nautilus window. Even if the name is not so long and it actually fits the address bar, it may be the case that there is only place for it in the bar. Try creating a folder and call it "a folder with a really really long name that even so still fits the address bar". Then open it and see what happens. Parent folders are not shown. This defeats the whole purpose of the bar as a navigational element, and is therefore not efficient. What I'm proposing is, ellipsize folder names that exceed a certain size in the path bar. Show the whole name on the window title, maybe on a tooltip if you keep the cursor hovering over the button, but keep pathbar buttons under a certain size".
Created attachment 119165 [details] mockup: proposal
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