Java's default display policy of text is to display
from it as much as possible starting from left to right
and truncate the text and put the continuation ("...")
string if the text doesn't fit in the control.
Now, for paths this should be reversed: always display
the ending of the string and eventually truncate it at
the beginning and put the continuation string.
Example:
/mnt/win_e
by default is displayed as
/mnt/...
but it should be
.../win_e
Logged In: YES
user_id=940779
An even better way might be to show a path like:
/mnt/data/personal/sketches/mouse.txt
this way:
/mnt/.../mouse.txt
I've seen it with other products and it seems to me pretty
fair.