On 01/27/2014 09:30 PM, looncraz wrote:> Excellent, I was thinking the general feeling would be otherwise, but [...]
Well, that was only my opinion, anyway :-)
Finally, though, I don't think cutting off the path makes a lot of sense. Why not just set the titles to B_TRUNCATE_END instead?Wouldn't that remove everything from the end of the string? That is the opposite of what I want. I only want to see the file name... though, it would make even more sense to detect the presence of a path, then truncate the beginning of the string, so that some of the path could possibly be preserved.
Hm, you got me there :-)I think the most useful solution would probably be B_TRUNCATE_MIDDLE as that also works fine for other non-path titles. For path names, it makes you able to distinguish to files with the same name when they are in different folders.
I'm not sure about a slider, I would welcome being able to just change the window size, though, using ctrl+alt+right mouse button.Ooh... I like that! Maybe even allow some vertical resizing... looking at the code, it might be a bit tricky, but certainly doable...
Vertical resizing would only be doable by changing the icon size. I'm not sure this would be something desirable in all cases.
John Scipione wrote: > Please don't implement that suggestion, ctrl+alt+secondary mouse > button drag is not the way to go. I know we do it for windows, but, we > shouldn't.That's obviously just your opinion: ctrl+alt+right mouse button is how we resize windows in Haiku conveniently. I don't quite see why we shouldn't unless there is a better solution; I haven't seen one yet.
But you have a point: this is a power user feature, so maybe the slider is also a good idea to have in the Deskbar preferences, after all.
Bye, Axel.