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Bug 127713 - long filenames cause huge space between icons
long filenames cause huge space between icons
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84390
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: Icon View
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-23 03:22 UTC by tint14
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0



Description tint14 2003-11-23 03:22:56 UTC
Description of Problem:
A filename, even if it's very long, is printed in
full beneath the icon. 

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open a nautilus window.
2. Navigate to a directory with many files with
very long names

Actual Results:
The long names are displayed in full, like this:

[ICON]
This f
ile has
been gi
ven a l
ong de
scrip
tive na
me so t
hat I ca
n rememb (repeated several times across
er what   the screen for successive files)
it is l
ater wi
thout h
aving t
o open
it.pdf

[ICON]
This is
another
file wi
th a sh
orter n
ame.txt

Expected Results:
Long filenames that would wrap to more that two
lines should be truncated, like this:

[ICON]
This f
ile ...

[ICON]
This is
ano ...

with an ellipses to show that the file's name has
been truncated.

How often does this happen? 
Every time I try to manage files in a directory
which contains files with long names.

Additional Information:
This problem gets worse with decreased
magnification. I'm comfortable working file icons
at "50%" or "75%" magnification, but shrinking the
icons size also shrinks the column that the entire
filename is wrapped into, so the filenames
actually take up more vertical distance the
smaller the icons get.
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2003-11-26 12:46:55 UTC
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 84390 ***