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Idea #30509: Always make full file pathnames available

bug This idea was marked as already implemented the 30 January 13.
Written by pabelmont the 24 Jan 13 at 15:58. Related project: Gnome. Status: Already implemented
Rationale
Various file-choice, file-identification software (e.g. "Choose an Icon", "File Browser") FAIL TO PROVIDE A METHOD TO EASILY obtain the full file pathname of the desired object.

GEDIT shows the file name and directory path but not copyably and not together as a single, copyable, file full pathname text string

SUGGESTION:

Make all of these file-choice programs (easily) show the full file's pathname. (File Browser shows the directory pathname, but not an individual file's full pathname. An option revealed by right-click should be able to show the full pathname).
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Solution #1: Always make full file pathnames available
Written by pabelmont the 24 Jan 13 at 15:58.
Start with FILE BROWSER (gnome). ADD AN OPTION on right-click to reveal the full pathname, or, more simply, just reveal it! It must be copyable by "highlighting" in drag-and-drop fashion.

Then work through daily-used s/w seeing which choice mechanisms (such as "Choose an Icon" used in "Launch" within "Add to Drawer" dropdown application chooser.)

GEDIT should show the full file's pathname or make it available.

And so forth. This is a gradual business. I realize that. So it is a bit like a "philosophy" for acceptable software.

* * * * *

Along the same lines, all software accessible via icon-click should have a right-click ability (via PROPERTIES) to identify the designated APPLICATION (location, name, package, whatever identifies it).

If YOU cannot figure out what I mean by "File Browser" or "Choose an Icon", you are seeing the result of the failure by LINUX to have this "philosophy" of identifying things easily.


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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 24 Jan 13 at 18:23
The Rationale should not have solutions in it. The Rationale should only explain the problem and provide context. Other Brainstormers should be able to contribute Solutions.

For example, the Rationale should show use cases or examples where this lack hurts your workflow or is annoying to users. And be specific - unskilled users? Skilled users? Developers?

Solution #1: Setting a work schedule for a project that you are (apparently) not participating in seems perhaps unrealistic. The final two paragraphs seem unrelated to the problem, and should be removed.

Formatting: Please don't SHOUT AT YOUR Brainstorm collaborators with all caps.

You can edit your Rationale or Solution at any time. Use the pencil icon.

serahstarshine wrote on the 30 Jan 13 at 04:06
This functionality already exists in Nautilus (the file manager):
* press CTRL-L to show a full path name. The text in this path name is copy/paste-able;
* right-click a file, select the 'properties' menu option, then look in the 'location' entry. This text is also copy/paste-able.

Ideally:
* this would be a little more accessible (CTRL-L isn't an immediately obvious way to change the path view);
* the file browser used by programs such as gedit would also have this functionality.

pabelmont wrote on the 13 Feb 13 at 03:35
I have created ICONS on the desktop (as we used to do in 10.04). Happily it is still possible! HOWEVER, the icons shown in PROPERTIES do not reveal their own pathname. It is as if clearly-available information is being deliberately hidden.

In FOLDERS (NAUTILUS?) the ctl-L does something (highlights two separate pieces of information: path and filename) so perhaps that's OK.

My proposal was that -- as a matter of overall design user-friendliness -- pathnames needed to do a top-level part of a job s/b available to the user. If I can click on an ICON (a picture), I s/b able to right-click to learn its pathname (where I could also find other icons).


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