GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 338092
Ellipsize very long folder names
Last modified: 2006-04-17 15:18:22 UTC
Please describe the problem: The open file dialog cannot be resized when you browse to a directory with a huge name, sometimes it even resizes itself off the screen. Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a directory with a long name (50 or more) 2) Invoke a GTK application (e.g. eog, file-chooser) 3) Invoke "Open" dialog 4) Browse to the directory with a long name 5) The window resizes itself to show the whole directory name. If the directory name is long enough, window width even exceeds the screen width and has to be manually moved on the screen to make all of its contents visible 6) Now browse to another directory with a short name. The window neither resizes itself nor cannot be resized manually. The only way to get a window with a normal width is to close and invoke the "Open" dialog once more. Actual results: Expected results: Window should resize itself only to the screen width, and show e.g. "..." instead of the rest of the string which does not fit to that window. The whole directory name can be shown in e.g. tooltip. It is also highly desirable to be able to resize the window back to normal width after browsing the directory with long name without opening the window once more. Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
Confirming this. Also - in nautilus in Browse mode, the location bar and other places where the folder name is written become unusable. Please file separate bugs for nautilus for the places where this causes issues for you.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 327152 ***