Explorer integration displays full pathname of selected file

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Explorer integration displays full pathname of selected file

Postby NetHawk » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:36 am

The explorer integration is a great feature. However, displaying the full pathname to selected files/folders makes the context menu a huge dialog. If only the file/folder name would be displayed instead (without the path), the context menu would be much more compact.

Is there any way to achieve this?
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Re: Explorer integration displays full pathname of selected file

Postby hveld » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:20 pm

Totally agree.

Sometimes the context menu takes more than half of the screen. And that's on 1600x1200 resolution, on lower it may even not fit into the whole screen :)
Paths definitely should be intelligently shortened if exceeding certain length, like
C:\Doc....\Desktop\test.txt instead of
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\test.txt
(me thinks drive and last folder should remain visible)

I think also the preceding text "Load in first frame: You have selected" should be shortened to a few characters, for example [1*] - now it is nearly 40 characters.

Now the shell integration is practically unusable.
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Re: Explorer integration displays full pathname of selected

Postby mjcarman » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:16 pm

This isn't a solution, but if you disable autoselect (Options->Configuration->General->Enable AutoSelect) the context menu won't become obscenely large until you deliberately select a file.
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