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Bug 660695 - Long file names in statusbar should be ellipsized
Long file names in statusbar should be ellipsized
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-02 14:09 UTC by Alexandr Grigorcea
Modified: 2012-08-31 19:23 UTC
See Also:
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2012-08-31 16:50 UTC, William Jon McCann 		Details
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Description Alexandr Grigorcea 2011-10-02 14:09:22 UTC 
Statusbar contains some usefull info like file size and free space, but when a filename is very long this info becomes hidden. Since filename is already visible under the icon I think that file size and free space should have more priority in the statusbar and long filenames should be ellipsized to make visible the file size.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2012-08-31 16:50:02 UTC 
Created attachment 223090 [details]
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Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2012-08-31 16:50:19 UTC 
Created attachment 223091 [details]
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Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2012-08-31 17:06:08 UTC 
One of the problems is that we just send a single long string to the statusbar which then tries to ellipsize the entire thing. That does seem wrong to me. We should ellipsize the filename separately. That probably means having a separate label for the filename from the status text.
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-08-31 19:23:49 UTC 
I pushed a fix for this to git master now, closing.