Abbreviated file names can be difficult to distinguish
Submitted by Evert Verhellen
Link to original bug (#162596)
Description
Steps:
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Open a terminal.
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$ touch these-are-{completed-tasks,tasks-in-progress}.txt
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$ ls
these-are-completed-tasks.txt these-are-tasks-in-progress.txt
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Start gedit.
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Press [Ctrl]+[O].
The "Open File..." dialog is displayed, both file names are shown as "these-are-…".
Actual results: "these-are-completed-tasks.txt" cannot easily be distinguished from "these-are-tasks-in-progress.txt", unless the Name column is resized.
Expected results: A tooltip with the complete file name should be displayed when the mouse pointer is above an abbreviated file name. Optionally, it might be interesting to also display a tooltip with non-abbreviated items, listing "Type", "Date Modified" and "Size" information (the Windows Explorer does this).