GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 313951
Don't ellipsize filenames in error dialogs
Last modified: 2005-08-19 14:47:15 UTC
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 4 I was deleting some files and received the following error: Error while deleting. "smb://andy@192...1-1.noarch.rpm" cannot be deleted because you do not have permissions to modify its parent folder. This is completely useless to me. I had no idea which file nautilus was complaining about. I couldn't even open a folder to look for it because the dialog is modal. Since the location bar is hidden by default, I don't think showing the whole url to the user is a very good idea. I think it should probably say <filename> in <parent directory name> cannot be deleted because you do not have permissions to modify its parent. It would be nice if the dialog had a button that opened the directory in question and highlighted the file, but that would be an extra.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152026 ***