the recently used filenames should be ellipsized

[webchemist]

Binary package hint: evince

There are no items in 'File' menu after opening a file or a number of files with large name or path. It is better to implement crop of names in this menu; something like 'A very large file_na...'.
Screenshot is attached.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 17 15:37:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Also, please answer these questions:
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem and resolving this bug.

[webchemist (webchemist)]

> Is this reproducible?
Yes, it is.
> If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
In order to reproduce this you should to try to open some files with long names. For example, I opened files via smb with non-latin characters in name (these names became percent-encoded in 'File' menu). So opened files history contains some file names with rather large quantity of characters (more than 100) and 'File' menu became empty and took width of full display width (I have 1680).
After opening some files with shorter names they push down long names from history list, and 'File' menu became visible.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

webchemist, could you please attach such a file?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems to be a gtk one, gedit has the same bug

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The empty menu issue seems fixed in jaunty but ellipsizing would still make sense the bug has been sent on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579845