Re: Shorten desktop icon names.

[Nando <nandox7 gmail com>]

I was looking a bit more into this and it seems to be connected to another problem that also happens in the desktop.
The lack of a "grid" to line up the icons.
And things like this happen: http://yfrog.com/0picontextoverlap2p

The same doesn't happen within the nautilus window and while browsing a folder.

2009/3/28 Christoph 'Gigi' Fuchs <gigi33 gmx at>

Hi Nando,
Hi nautilus-list,

I just want to say that this is one thing that confuses me too
sometimes. I am very new to this list and not that involved yet, so I
am not sure if there is a patch for this already.

If anyone has plans to implement this, please keep in mind that it is
often better to shorten long file names by skipping the middle part.
At least in my opinion. So very-very-long-file-name.jpg becomes
very-v...ame.jpg or something similar.

Cheers,
Gigi

2009/3/27 Nando <nandox7 gmail com>:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any setting to be able to shorten the names bellow the icons in the
> desktop?
> I wanted to make them like in windows, one line shorten name and ended with
> '...' (three dots).
> Because it does that but it let the name be spread across 3 lines below the
> icon, making a big of confusion if some icons are together.
>
> Not sure if this would be easy to change in the code in case it is not
> possible to define somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Nando
>

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