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

[Felix Ernst]

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

--- Comment #4 from Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> I dug up the history.

Thanks for researching!

> 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.

Hmm, five people complaining for a very user-visible change within 1 year seems
somewhat normal for any kind of Dolphin change to me. Of course some people
will be hit harder by such a change than others, so a certain percent will
always complain, and of course the compromise change was less of a change so
neither the users who would like middle-eliding more nor those who did prefer
the previous behaviour would complain. Hmm, it is difficult to draw final
conclusions from that IMO. Nate's comment of "Yeah, I feel bad about this.
Nobody liked the change and I feel like I can understand the complaints." might
perhaps even have been too self-critical. :P

> 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.

I think I would be fine with reverting back to simple middle-ellision if Méven,
who implemented that change, would also be fine with it. Having it as an option
might IMHO indeed be the best option here, though it seems a bit of a
workaround when it really seems generally a bit unfortunate to have file names
so long that they don't fit within Dolphin. That could be considered user error
to some extent which we don't have to accomodate for considering that there is
no ideal solution that fits everyone here.

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