Created attachment 8967 xfdesktop icon tooltip suggestion When hovering on a file/folder icon on the desktop, only the type, size and last modification time appear. I would suggest to add first the name of the object in the first line of the tooltip. Rationale : - the name of the file/folder is usually hidden by the tooltip window - in case of a long name, the string appears truncated on the desktop. Users may then want to see the full untruncated name, without necessarily entering into editing the icon ; being able to see the full name just by hovering is an easy solution to these very minor issues. Please see attached patch. This would require a slight update of the po files (adding "%s\n" in the msgid and msgstr in two places, as I have done e.g. for fr.po ), could be easily done by an ad hoc script
Hi, thanks for the suggestion, I agree with the rationale. With regards the patch, can you please send another one with commit info (git format-patch HEAD^) and without changes to .po files (they are translated on transifex)?
Created attachment 9007 Patch adding name of file in tooltips, when hovering on xfdesktop icons
Sorry Andre, that's the first time I have to deal with git (beyond just cloning an existing repository), and I didn't understand how to use git-patch. So I just created a new ordinary patch, without touching the po files.
Jean-Pierre Demailly referenced this bugreport in commit 2074ee97ddf0d95fcc7fde216f8faad246b06025 Show file names in tooltips (Bug #15899) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit?id=2074ee97ddf0d95fcc7fde216f8faad246b06025
Jean-Pierre Demailly referenced this bugreport in commit ac5da1fab6163c80c0e51e67eb54eff5ef74b39e Show file names in tooltips (Bug #15899) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit?id=ac5da1fab6163c80c0e51e67eb54eff5ef74b39e
Thanks for the patch, I pushed it with a couple of modifications: - display_name is already available, no need to g_file_get_basename (which requires free) - I didn't apply this change to special file icons (home, file system, removable devices...) because it didn't make sense IMO.