Re: Icon name length bug

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Petnuch <michael petnuch com> writes:
> Nautilus has a bug where is does not cap the lenght of a filename and
> lets it be as long as it wants.  For instance the file name
> this_is_a_very_long_file_name_and_will_not_be_wrapped.txt will look just
> like that in nautilus.
> 
> Yet the filename this-is-a-very-long-file-name-and-will-be-wrapped-.txt
> does get wrapped.

There's an open feature request about this (filed against
Pango). Pango needs a wrap mode that first tries word wrap, then falls
back to character-based wrap. This would then be used for the icon
text.

Havoc