items in folder view widget should show full file name on hover/in tooltip. i sometimes have several files starting with the same string, which appear already truncated and thus indistinguishable in the folder view -- but even when hovering, the name ist still truncated, rendering the information on hover basically useless for my purposes. i think, at least on hover the full name shall appear -- if the hover has room for previews, the full name should fit even better (if necessary, break after X chars, but do not truncate).
I can't reproduce this. I renamed a file to "This is a testof a hugely long file name that is probably going to be truncated according to the reporter.jpg" and it's not truncated in the tooltip. Can you add a screenshot?
Created attachment 103455 [details] Example screenshot
well, _your_ exmaple has spaces, whereas my file names usually don't. a file name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.txt is truncated. see attched screenshot
Created attachment 103468 [details] name w/o spaces is truncated
Git commit 593f8183dd4ee8e5bc62b4b7bb9fa208d4be3fea by Eike Hein. Committed on 18/01/2017 at 15:55. Pushed by hein into branch 'master'. Set wrapMode to Text.WrapAnywhere. Summary: Means long main texts don't get truncated. One of the main uses for tooltips is to show full text for things that are truncated in the usual UI, so this is a bad default. Reviewers: #plasma, mart Subscribers: plasma-devel, #frameworks Tags: #plasma, #frameworks Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D4189 M +1 -0 src/declarativeimports/core/private/DefaultToolTip.qml https://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/593f8183dd4ee8e5bc62b4b7bb9fa208d4be3fea
The fix was in plasma-framework rather than Folder View (it's in the Plasma default tooltip code), so it will come when you update to the next Frameworks release.