[dolphin] [Bug 497664] Tuncate files names in the middle

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497664

--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
I dug up the history. Turns out I changed the elision from right-eliding to
middle-eliding in https://phabricator.kde.org/D19471 for Dolphin 19.12.0.
Likely for the same reason brought up in this bug report: to make Dolphin more
like the macOS Finder, which I stopped using only a few years prior, in 2016.

Then Méven changed it to the current style in
https://phabricator.kde.org/D29794 for Dolphin 20.04.0. The reason appears to
have been people complaining about the first change in
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404955, which led to the current approach
which was viewed as a compromise.

Ultimately I think the right conclusion here is that it should be made
configurable, since people have different file naming approaches and hence
different elision needs. But I do still think simple middle-elision is the best
default.

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