ellipsed file names are not expanded on mouseover

Bug #1448474 reported by Doug McMahon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Invalid
Medium
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Test case:
create a file thats name is long enough to ellipse (....
put cursor over that file

What should happen: name should expand to full
What does happen: nothing, one must actually click on file to expand

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Apr 25 10:35:53 2015
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-24 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks, confirmed and sent upstream to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748586

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Ok, I found https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701279 which describes it as a wanted change. They change the code to display the name when selected but not on over

Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

upstream closed the bug with that comment

"Yeah it was removed as it was overwhelming. As the comment says, the file can simply be clicked to reveal the full name.

Closing NOTABUG."

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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