Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI tweak
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 13.07.2017 um 19:46 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Henrique Andrade wrote:
>>
>>> Now I'm testing something that may affect the look and feel: very long
>>> paths for working dir. [...]
>>
>> Urgh, yes, that had occurred to me but I hoped we could get away without
>> resorting to ellipsis. Maybe not.
>
> I just put a limit of 48 characters on the length of path to display in
> full.
Just seeing it for the first time in the new release. First
impression: Very nice, thanks! The 48-char limit however prevents me
from seeing the most important right-tail of the path even when I
make the window very wide so that there's ample space.
(On Windows the path will often start with
"C:\Users\<username>\Documents",
so that's already more than half of the 48 chars for typical usernames.)
So could the char limit be a function of the window width?
Hmm, I think that would be a bit complicated. But after a little
experimentation I've increased the max length to 56 characters.
We can revisit this if need be.
Allin