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User problem: ----------------------------------- The explorer has too wide Node display names requiring horizontal scrollbar use which negatively affects usability. User need: ----------------------------------- The user needs to browse through the explorer content without having to work with the horizontal scrollbar (unless he made the window very narrow or is in a very deep level in the tree). Product requirement: ----------------------------------- Reconsider all the tree node display names to only display necessary information (such as the folder name instead of path for filesystem roots) to minimize the content width.
Hack factor: 0 Difficulty: 0 - mainly this is replacing bundle keys and a few trivial code changes. Note a semi-alternative (already implemented in a branch): Use HTML to affect text color, to de-emphasize unimportant text (like vcs statii). It both looks much more attractive, and indicates that the information is less-important details, reducing the temptation to horizontally scroll. Issues: - For filesystems this is at least something of an issue; the path name is useful information, but can be long. Possibly it could be truncated and the entire thing put in the tooltip; alternative is to require user enter a name for a mount (not sure this is a great idea).
Suggest to address this in 3.6 by: - displaying only last folder name for root node of Filesystem, instead of full path (which, on Windows, is usually something like "C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxxxxxx") - changing the annotation pattern for VCS to augment display name for files only if sticky tag exists, as the Revision is not too useful and Status is redundant because it is already displayed in the icon.
Ian, I'd suggest creating high-priority enhancements for vcs and openide/fs to make sure they show up on the right engineers' lists, and make them block this issue.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 42589 ***