File Properties - Location Cannot Be Seen in its Entirety

[Lonnie Lee Best]

The locations of files are ellipsified (and therefore "right-cropped") when viewing the properties of a file.

To see this bug, do the following.

1) Open Nautilus
2) Navigate to a file location whose entire path-location is more than 26 characters in length.
3) Right-Click the file, and go to "Properties"
4) Under the "Basic" tab, see the "Location:" field.

Now, notice that it is impossible to see the file's location in its entirety!

This bug is especially frustrating, after performing a search for a file, because the search results offer no indication of that file's actual path-location, and going to properties of the file (as a search result) only shows the first half its path (making this information effectively useless).

Additionally, when I'm looking for this information, I'm typically wanting to copy it to the clipboard. Please ease this task as much as possible. This would be an excellent location to add a small icon button tool-tipped "Copy Location to Clipboard".

This suggestion caters to power users without taking anything away from beginners.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jan 24 11:32:58 2014
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-07 (109 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-08 (15 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is resolved in newer versions
- the dialog can be resized
- the search view has a location column
- you can select/copy the text in the properties dialog