Re: [PATCH][RFC] Improve icon view line breaks

[Tuukka Tolvanen <tuukka tolvanen gmail com>]

Alexander Larsson kirjoitti:
> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 22:11 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > The attached patch is meant to improve icon view line breaks by looking
> > for '.', '_' and CamelCase characters, and inserting pango hints that it
> > may preferably break at a particular position (i.e. treat it as end of
> > word). It is meant to fix bug 300790 [1], while the more interesting
> > discussion was going on in bug 323711 [2] between Behdad and myself.
> > caveats:
> >  - Some developers might not like breaking after CamelCase. It looks
> > more aesthetically, but makes FooFooBar indistinguishable from FooFoo
> > Bar if we break between the two words. Comments appreciated

> I'm not sure handling CamelCase is right. It may be somewhat surprising
> to people. What do other people think about that?

I'm inclined to think that breaking CamelCase would be desirable, 
unsurprising, and unproblematic specifically for developers dealing with 
CamelCase filenames. That's not to say there might not be other cases 
where that heuristic would cause surprising results...

(Desirable in this case for same reasons as with other cases; 
unsurprising because CamelCasing is a hack to indicate word separation 
without a word separation character; unproblematic because there pretty 
much categorically are no spaces.)

't.