[Usability] Re: display full path in spatial nautilus

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Calum Benson writes: 

> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 23:32, David Adam Bordoley wrote: 
>
> > Using the full path as the window title makes the window list thoroughly 
> > unusable for *most* users who aren't going to have ten folders with the same 
> > name.[1]
>
> Perhaps in general there ought to be a way for a window to suggest a
> sensible "abbreviated" name to any window-list-type app (e.g. just the
> current document's filename, or just the current folder name)? 
> Slavishly copying whatever's written in the titlebar has always seemed a
> rather unhelpful idea to me, given that you're almost never going to be
> able to read it all however styleguide-compliant it is.

Perhaps although for most folders I find that I don't have a problem with 
file names being cut off. The bigger problem I have is that every gedit 
window is called /home when I'm more interested in the fact that the file is 
open-applet.c etc. 

Regardless of this I don't think we should change the title to the full 
path. For the *majority* of users who don't have 30 folders with the same 
name, using the full path leads to more confusion than gain. We lose a major 
benefit of the spatial browser, mainly by adding more conginitive load to 
interpret wtf /home/dave/folder1/documents means. 

dave