When renaming long filenames, nautilus may start to write outside the visible area

[openmoho]

When you choose to show icons on the side of filenames in nautilus you get an annoying behaviour when trying to rename very long filnames. Nautilus starts to write at a point where the new name you're writing isn't visible.
I personnaly don't like long filenames, so I want to rename them properly when I get some e.g. from the internet... And it's one of those little annoyings when you don't see what you're writing...

This bug is reproducible:
1. In nautilus do: Edit»Preferences»Views»Icon View Defaults»Text beside icons
2. Name a folder long enough to let the parts of the name disappear from the visible area (it has to be a folder that remains in the first row.)
3. Rename it. You will notice that the cursor won't be visible, you don't get the focus on what you're writing

I would love to see the cursor, that's all...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * Could you add a screenshot showing the issue to the bug (rather than using random websites)?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[openmoho (openmoho)]

first screenshot

[openmoho (openmoho)]

second screenshot

[openmoho (openmoho)]

third screenshot (showing the cursor out of sight)

[openmoho (openmoho)]

fourth screenshot

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for the details

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent this upstream at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590304

[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.

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)]

is anyone still having that issue in quantal?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is old and Ubuntu changed quite a lot since, there has also been no activity here nor similar reports. Closing since we believe the issue as described is deprecated but feel free to file a new report if you still have problems in recent Ubuntu versions.