GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 597179
Show file path
Last modified: 2011-08-30 19:06:53 UTC
The player shows everything BUT the name of the current file. I would expect this to form the window title, instead I see the metadata item "Title", which is not always the most useful (in my case, the filename is the metadata, whereas the metadata is identical across files, so I can't tell which file I'm listening too). Most GUI programs that I can think of display the file name in the window, I don't see why this player needs to make an exception to that guideline. If no changes are to be made to the window title, please show the current filename somewhere, such as in the properties pane. The Properties only re-iterates the "Title" metadata, and other not helpful things like "Channels", etc. -Mike
I don't understand the problem here. What's the different between what you see, and what you would have expected here? You can copy the filename in the playlist itself already. Screenshots, or a little text diagram with some reproducer steps would be helpful.
The application doesn't show the filename anywhere. This is useful if I want to know what file I'm listening to. See attached screenshot of a file "06.12.29.fri.wma" in Totem Movie Player 2.22.2 via Debian. Most applications show the filename in the application frame text. I expect to see the filename appear either as the main application frame text, or somewhere in the properties.
Created attachment 158671 [details] Screenshot of Totem 2.22.2 that does *not* display the filename (06.12.29.fri.wma)
Created attachment 161459 [details] Screenshot of modified totem playlist - additional URI column
I think the best place to display filenames (URIs/URLs) would be in the playlist. That's very easy to implement by just adding an additional column. I wrote a small patch that adds such a column. See attached screenshot for example of how it would look like. Screenshot shows two video files in the playlist. The first file has the "title"-metadata set, the second has no title and therefore shows the filename as title (as usual). The additional column shows the complete (escaped) path to the file/stream/whatever.
Created attachment 161471 [details] [review] Patch to display URL/URI of playlist-items in additional column Small patch to add filepath/URI/URL-column to playlist, because this imho important information isn't displayed elsewhere in totem.
Reopening as I think the requested information (and a patch) has been provided.
*** Bug 624635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 652701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
No, sorry, this is ugly. You can already access the filename by clicking "Copy Location" in the playlist.