From kde-devel  Thu Aug 14 17:20:41 2003
From: Mark Bucciarelli <mark () easymailings ! com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:20:41 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [Patch] Usability improved in windowlist/kicker
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On Thursday 14 August 2003 1:00 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2003 10:41, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > > on the other hand, limiting it to 25 characters (as it currently does
> > > in CVS) is also equally absurd, IMHO... i'm trying what it looks like
> > > up'd to 60 Ems, and without all the nasty separators in the menu =)
> >
> > why not replace the intermediate stuff with elipses for long paths.
> > for example,
> >
> > /home/.../stuff.txt
>
> yes... i'm use a centre squeeze...

if center squeeze + 60 chars still doesn't show it all, you may want to take a 
look at the patch Tim Jansen did for KOrganizer--the letters progressively 
fade out, which is a nice solution, usability-wise, if you have to truncate.

http://lists.kde.org/?t=105769394600005&r=1&w=2

regards,

mark
 
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