Word wrap long file names in list view

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I would like the Nautilus list view to wrap long file names. This behaviour could be optional (configurable).

I have a number of scientific papers with very long names, eg. "[nigam-aiaa-2008-5913] Control and Design of Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicles for a Persistent Surveillance Task.pdf". On my widescreen desktop, enough of the name is visible to be useful; however, on my Acer netbook the name is ellipsized and the column can't be expanded enough.

At one point I accidentally renamed a file using a copied-and-pasted string with some kind of newline character in it, and the Nautilus list view showed the filename on two lines in an expanded row. I was delighted by what I *thought* was a new feature until I realized it wasn't one. Maybe it should be!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the ubuntu team doesn't have the ressources to work on such changes but that could be an upstream change suggestion, could you open the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org where people writting the software will read it?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you send the bug to GNOME?

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru)]

OK, done!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the bug report to GNOME

[Endolith (endolith)]

Would it be good enough to hover over the filenames and see the full name in a tooltip?

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru)]

Endolith: not really; in order to distinguish files, I would have to hover over several of them in succession. Hovering at all is difficult with the very small netbook touchpad. Tooltips also wouldn't be useful if one wanted to control Nautilus via the keyboard.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

feature request so not a papercut

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream closed the bug with that comment

"The multiline filenames were fixed in bug 683059. I don't think we want to wrap
lines in list view."