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Bug 122223 - file path in status bar
Summary: file path in status bar
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159722
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: issues@platform
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Reported: 2007-11-18 06:23 UTC by nigel_bris
Modified: 2012-09-22 23:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description nigel_bris 2007-11-18 06:23:36 UTC 
Under menu of View, have tick option of show foccussed files path

In rails development, you may have many files with the same name in different paths. When you ctrl-tab you get the path
in the status bar. It would also be very helpful to have the path in for the current focussed file.
Comment 1 Petr Dvorak 2008-04-22 16:22:04 UTC 
Yes, it would be nice to display full file name for the selected file in the status bar when some option in the View
menu is checked.
Comment 2 Petr Chytil 2008-09-02 09:55:50 UTC 
reassigning to core/window system
Comment 3 David Simonek 2008-10-24 12:35:18 UTC 
Should be relatively easy to implement, anyone from community is interested in working on this?
Comment 4 theskad 2008-12-12 09:17:06 UTC 
Started with implementation of standalone module. For initial version:

Startup: Register actionGlobalContext listener in module installer. 
Global context listener: When FileObject changes, change to status line to nothing|file path|first file path.
Configuration: TBD (using view menu as proposed seems to be a good idea)

Opened issues so far:
- using module installer is not a good idea (maybe register listener somewhere else -- upon setting change)
- is it possible to display to preserve message in status bar?

Will post preview of module at Dec 15th (Monday) as zip file attached to this issue.
Comment 5 markiewb 2012-09-22 23:16:46 UTC 
The path can be shown in titlebar (instead of statusbar) using an external plugin. See #159722

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159722 ***