Re: [Usability] Re: display full path in spatial nautilus

[Mariano Suarez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:58, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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.

There is a way: apps can set an icon name, which is what is shown in the
window list (unless no icon name has been set: then you just get the
window name) The tooltip, otoh, is always the window name. 
If apps consistently set an icon name to be the short form of the window
name, things would work fine, I guess.

The window list should be changed to display tooltips on grouped window
icons, though.

-- m


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