Cleverly shorten long paths in GoTo and the location bar
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 275
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- 16
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Description
Continuing a discussion from #506. For very nested, long directory names, GoTo and the location bar are too short to display the entire path. They should cleverly replace unimportant path parts by ellipses ....
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Research direction
Review the discussion in #506 first, then locate the GoTo and location bar implementations in the fman codebase. Determine how each currently renders long paths and define the truncation behavior so important path parts remain visible; done means deeply nested paths fit with unimportant parts replaced by ... in both locations.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100