list layout

[Yomi0]

It's sort of hard to read filenames like this because they get cut off. So I'm requesting for a list mode.

[mjtorn]

This is an issue in enlightenment's file manager - unless it's fixed since the e19 version I'm running. It's ridiculously hard to get a long file name visible. Would wrapping the text make it too awful, as in not keeping the icons aligned straight?

(Caveat: I do not know if Jesus comes with a tooltip for long file names, even that would be better than what my current e19 does)

[marcelhollerbach]

Adding a table view is planned, but even there will be a problem with long names, if you have a small screen.

My Idea to fix this was to get the file names across 3 rows, if they are still too long ellipses the filename out and add (as you said) a tooltip with the complete name.

I just wasnt able to tweak a label to work like this ... Will work on this as next task

[marcelhollerbach]

Okay, I just played with it a bit and tested how it looks with 3 lines filename, it looks ugly...
Now there are two possibilitys:

• Let the label rotate to show the complete name
• Show tooltip after you entered the label with the mouse.

[Yomi0]

I don't know if it would be helpful, but Thunar seems to do linebreaks somehow with long filenames and somehow manages to keep everything aligned.

efm (in E) seems to show the filename up to a certain length. (which...seems okay...)

But mainly, I just prefer a view like this.

[marcelhollerbach]

A Table view will come soon :) there are just a few more items before this one

I dont like the tunar view, there is too much text, I think I will go for the tooltip, its just clean. I also just added the rename feature, so if someone wants to copy the file name he can just press F2.

Maybe I can additionaly tweak the label to look like the enlightenmentfm :). But there are a few other things ahead :)

[mjtorn]

BTW, just as a side note, you may not want to add the ... at the end of the file name if it's too long, it's sometimes real annoying to have similarly-named files and they all look the same because the significant information is actually at the end, which is cut off.

[marcelhollerbach]

How do you mean ? the ... at the end is just added if the name is too long to be displayed, What would be the alternative ? If there is the ... you can hover above the label and get the complete name :)

[mjtorn]

Consider files like video-camera-2015-07-01-01.mpeg (as an example, with running dates) and they get truncated into video-camer...

The alternative is showing them like video...07-01-01.mpeg or whatever, maybe even drop the extension. See how much more significant information that carries?

And, sure, either way hovering is a must, thanks :)

[marcelhollerbach]

Ah okay got it, I will have to look if this is possible, the main problem here is that the ellising is done in evas, so in the end I do have to do anything with it. I would have to check if the complete text would fit the size or not, which is not that easy. Lets call it wishlist for now, ok ? :)

[mjtorn]

If you do have to do it manually, maybe it should be a patch into eina, because I can't be the only person who finds the trailing ellipses annoying ;) Raster's pretty good with usability, I'm sure he'd agree if a patch showed up on his doorstep :)

[marcelhollerbach]

Its not that easy, evas just knows a single text object and this object will render regardings its options. It doesnt know another text object where it should calculate the difference from. Making a solution in efl will be very hard. If this is somehow solvable then the end user has to to it I guess :(

After a quick look its imposible to get out of evas if this text fits into the given space or not 👎

[mjtorn]

Not sure I get what you're saying, sorry. My idea was just to submit a patch to evas that alters the ellipsis behavior. Then you wouldn't have to ask evas if the text fits or not and need not do anything of your own there.

[marcelhollerbach]

Mhmm what would you change? That the user can pass a "smaller" string to evas so instead of fading out the exisiting one ?

[Yomi0]

If this is also going to have a list view, isn't it also going to need columns?

[marcelhollerbach]

not for now but I would also like to have a view with details of the files in columns.