Hi, I originally filed this in Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/273666 ...someone suggested I raise it upstream. I deal with a lot of engineering journal articles with rather long titles, and I use the full titles in the file name for easy location via Nautilus' search feature. When I choose "View as List" in Nautilus, most of the names are ellipsized, and it's often difficult to visually locate the paper I am looking for. For example, the file named "[cole-jfr-2006] System Development and Demonstration of a UAV Control Architecture for Information Gathering Missions.pdf" displays as "[cole-jfr-2006] System Development and Demonstration of a UAV Contr...". However, if I rename the file and insert a newline character (Ctrl-Shift-U to activate Unicode entry, then "a", then Enter) in the filename, the row corresponding to the file resizes nicely and the full name is split across two lines. I noticed this by accident when copying-and-pasting full titles from within PDF documents. I think it would be a nice enhancement to Nautilus if this could happen automatically; i.e. all files in a folder are displayed so their names are word wrapped instead of ellipsized. I know "use shorter file names" is always a solution, but I think other people would find this to be a useful feature, too. Just as the rows of icons in "View as Icons" are spaced irregularly so full names are visible, it's not necessary for every row in "View as List" to be the same height. Cheers, -- Paul Kishimoto MASc candidate (2010), Flight Systems & Control Group University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) http://paul.kishimoto.name — +19053029315
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