Properties dialog's width not fixed

[roberto]

The width of the the properties dialog is not always the same, the more "location" field(within the properties detail) is long the more the window's width will grow

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

It looks like you are not using the default theme - perhaps its due to that? I do not get this effect with the default theme. Could you try with the default elementary theme and see whether this bug still occurs? Of course, the properties should not be that sensitive to the theme.

[roberto (robbbbye)]

I'm using the elementary default theme! I just changed the icons, but I've just tried with default icons too.
In any case, as I told you, I've had this problem since one of the last updates...

[roberto (robbbbye)]

The bug has been solved with the last update

[roberto (robbbbye)]

should I put "Fix released" to this bug?

[roberto (robbbbye)]

I corrected the bug report, because the bug has changed in the last days, now the width of the properties dialog grows as much as the "location" field is long ( I wrote it in the description)

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Why do you believe it would be better to have a fixed width window and truncate the over-long fields?

[roberto (robbbbye)]

Hi jeremy.
For two reasons:

1. Just try creating 4 subfolders with very! long labels (to simulate let's say 15 subfolders with standard label's length) and you'll see that the width can become wider than the screen width itself! And especially who has a little screen this can happen very easily.

2.If you would like a not fixed width window, then what's inside (the permissions) the "more" tab should be centered and adapted to the width, but in any case the length of the window can't be infinite..

By the way before, the width was fixed, it's been changed with an update (more or less when I posted this bug).
I guess there's no need to truncate the over-long fields, an idea could be to go to new lines when the path is longer, and if it's very long maybe it could be truncated ( if a path it's too long you just can't expect to see all the path, at a certain point it has to be truncated. Mabye you could see the whole path putting the mouse over the path and a popup could appear just like it happens when you put the mouse on an app on plank...)

Therefore my opinion is:
Increase the standard width and height of the dialog box so as to include the majority of the paths, and if a paths is very long (until a certain point) you can go at new lines.
Of course, this is my two cents..

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Hi Roberto

You have a point that there should be a maximum window width after which the field should either wrap or truncate. I think wrapping a path could look odd even if you made sure to wrap at a "/" character. Truncating the beginning of the path would probably look better. Perhaps a tooltip showing the full path could be added. The full path is always visible in the path bar (except the iconised part) although that may be partially truncated as well.