Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!gk5g+ From: gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: easy suggestion for EZ Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 91 18:36:43 GMT References: <8bd3ifm1eVXq8y=kVN@northstar.dartmouth.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 Excerpts from misc: 28-Jan-91 easy suggestion for EZ Anthony Edwards@northsta (499+0) > So, can you shorten the name? Yes. It's pretty trivial. The only problem is the loss of information. Excerpts from misc: 28-Jan-91 easy suggestion for EZ Anthony Edwards@northsta (499+0) > How about only displaying the filename without the path in it? I think > it's rare for someone to edit the same named file in lots of directories > or, if they did, they would know by icon position which file is which. It happens to me quite a bit. I don't agree that icon position is useful in discriminating between different editing sessions with common filenames in different directories. Excerpts from misc: 28-Jan-91 easy suggestion for EZ Anthony Edwards@northsta (499+0) > I just have a suggestion: when I iconify an Ez window, I get a huge > file name in a box as the icon. The huge file name is because we're on > NAFS which means all our directories start with at least > /afs/northstar.dartmouth.edu/user/... Are these long filenames present even when editing files under your home directory? Here a tilde (~) is used to represent my home directory. That makes the icon string reasonable for my most common editing tasks. What does the user community think about this issue? Is a new preference called for? *.ShortIconNames: YES Gary Keim ATK Group