Bug 445764 - Option to display full path of moved file source / destination in the notification's applet
Summary: Option to display full path of moved file source / destination in the notific...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.89.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KIO Bugs
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-11-19 18:17 UTC by postix
Modified: 2021-12-21 22:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description postix 2021-11-19 18:17:31 UTC 
Created attachment 143741 [details]
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SUMMARY

If one copies a file or folder with a long path like

`/media/this/is/a/very/long/path/which/will/become/elided/in/the/middle.img`
to
`/media/this/is/a/very/long/path/which/foo/becomes/elided/in/the/middle.img`

both become truncated and elided somewhere in the middle

```
/media/this/is/a/very/long/path/...
ided/in/the/middle.img
```

However in certain situations it can be useful to read the full paths, but there's no option to display it and thus the exact source and destination cannot be determined.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20211117
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-11-23 22:53:13 UTC 
I think these labels are limited to 2 lines but maybe we can increase that.
Comment 2 Felipe Kinoshita 2021-12-20 01:11:33 UTC 
Maybe we could show the full path when hovering them
Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2021-12-21 22:55:02 UTC 
The maximum line count is 5, actually, which should be plenty.

The truncation you're seeing here happens in KIO. This was mostly done to avoid sending multi-megabytes of data: URLs around.