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Idea #25750: Nautily context menu becomes ugly with long items

Written by Vitaly the 1 Sep 10 at 22:44. Related project: Nautilus. Status: New
Rationale
Some programs / plugins add items to nautilus context menu. If item text is long, then menu becomes very ugly

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http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9544/nautilusmenu.png
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Solution #1: Autocut long items and animate sliding text when mouseover
Written by Vitaly the 1 Sep 10 at 22:44.
two steps:

1. Really long items should be cutted automatically

2. If item text is really significant (like in example), it should be automatically slided from left to right, when mouse over.

May be, this solution can be applied to other areas too. Don't know. My use-case is for "diff-ext" extention for meld. Use it often for development.
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Solution #2: Send a bug report to the plugin project
Written by alexduf2 the 2 Sep 10 at 06:28.
everything is in the title

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Vitaly wrote on the 2 Sep 10 at 17:16
For guys, who voting for "sending bug report to plugin". That will NOT solve generic problem. It's not just "one buggy plugin"

Problem is NOT to just cut string, but allow to show long strings in sweet way (with animation or smth else). It whould be huge waste of resource, to make each plugin author to implement such functionality. I think, it should be in nautilus.


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