From: Arnaud C. <ar...@ca...> - 2004-06-27 08:16:43
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Hi ! 2 problems in rox 2.1.2 When I have some icons in a filer window, and somme of them have a long name, and some don't, there are problems in the display of these files ; I have something like that (the first icon is a standard folder icon, and the second one is a big thumbnail) : ------------- | | | | | | | | | | ------------- begining_of_t he_file_name_ and_the_end_is ------------ near_but_its_ |__________| not_here_yet_ standard folder now_yes.jpg And when you have lot of images and short & long file names, the display's horrible ! Perhaps it'd be possible to align text *on top*, like this : ------------- | | | | | | | | ------------ | | |__________| ------------- standard folder begining_of_t he_file_name_ and_the_end_is near_but_its_ not_here_yet_ now_yes.jpg Or perhaps truncate the filename display : ------------- | | | | | | | | ------------ | | |__________| ------------- standard folder begining_(...) And for the text : why does the filer cuts words, like I did here, in the middle of a word : begining_of_t he_file_name Wouldn't this be better ? : begining_of_ the_file_name I don't know if it is fine in english, but in french, we don't cut words anywhere ! We can't write this : on ne peut pas co uper au milieu d'un mot But we must do this, if we must cut the word : on ne peut pas cou- per au milieu d'un mot Your ideas ? -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Arnaud :::: |
From: Alastair P. <ala...@li...> - 2004-06-27 09:14:01
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On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:14, Arnaud CALVO wrote: > Perhaps it'd be possible to align text *on top*, like this : ... This would be really cool > Or perhaps truncate the filename display : This is an even better idea ;-) Showing long filenames also sometimes annoys me, truncating them then showing the full name in a tool-tip, or when you select the image would be quite nice Alastair --=20 (o< - A l a s t a i r P o r t e r //\ =20 V_/_ ala...@li... |
From: Thomas L. <ta...@ec...> - 2004-06-27 13:03:38
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On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Arnaud CALVO wrote: > > Hi ! > > 2 problems in rox 2.1.2 > > When I have some icons in a filer window, and somme of them have a long > name, and some don't, there are problems in the display of these files ; > I have something like that (the first icon is a standard folder icon, > and the second one is a big thumbnail) : > > ------------- > | | > | | > | | > | | > | | > ------------- > begining_of_t > he_file_name_ > and_the_end_is > ------------ near_but_its_ > |__________| not_here_yet_ > standard folder now_yes.jpg > > And when you have lot of images and short & long file names, the > display's horrible ! > Perhaps it'd be possible to align text *on top*, like this : That makes the layout calculation more complicated, though. The current system is: - Each item's height is image_height + text_height. - The text goes at the bottom, the image goes above it. Your system (though it would look better): - Each item's height is image-height + max(all-text-heights). ie, you can't ask an item "How much space do you need?" until you already know the heights of all the text layouts, so you need two passes over the items instead of one. For comparison: ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ---------- ---------- | | | | -------- | | | | | | | | -------- | | -------- | | | | | | Multi-line ---------- -------- ---------- item file File1 Multi-line File1 name item file ----------------------------- name --------------------------------- Lining up the bases of the images increases the row height, because you can get wasted space at the top and at the bottom. -- Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net tal00r at ecs.soton.ac.uk tal197 at users.sourceforge.net GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1 |
From: Truls B. <be...@st...> - 2004-06-27 17:31:05
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Arnaud CALVO wrote: >Perhaps it'd be possible to align text *on top*, like this : > > ------------- > | | > | | > | | > | | > ------------ | | > |__________| ------------- > standard folder begining_of_t > he_file_name_ > and_the_end_is > near_but_its_ > not_here_yet_ > now_yes.jpg Excuse me, but isn't this what the Filer does already? It sure looks like that in this shot: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~becken/files/rox-thumbs.png >Or perhaps truncate the filename display : > > ------------- > | | > | | > | | > | | > ------------ | | > |__________| ------------- > standard folder begining_(...) In many cases this would be a good thing. It would probably get rid of all the extra white space in the shot above, which stems from a name on a row not shown. I suggest a Truncate Names option in the bottom part of the Display menu, where you currently find Show Hidden and Show Thumbnails. Viewing the full name in a tool-tip is a good idea, care must be taken so that a file that already has a tool-tip shows different tips for the name and the icon. -- Truls Becken |
From: Bernhard W. <Ber...@gm...> - 2004-06-27 18:44:24
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* Truls Becken <be...@st...> [2004-06-27 19:31]: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Arnaud CALVO wrote: > > >Or perhaps truncate the filename display : > > > > ------------- > > | | > > | | > > | | > > | | > > ------------ | | > > |__________| ------------- > > standard folder begining_(...) > > In many cases this would be a good thing. It would probably get rid of all > the extra white space in the shot above, which stems from a name on a row > not shown. I suggest a Truncate Names option in the bottom part of the > Display menu, where you currently find Show Hidden and Show Thumbnails. > > Viewing the full name in a tool-tip is a good idea, care must be taken so > that a file that already has a tool-tip shows different tips for the name > and the icon. Another idea would be the possibility to choose a smaller font only for the file names (i.e. icon description). Regards, Bernhard -- |