Tracker: Minimum truncation limit should be higher

[bitigchi]

Currently Tracker allows truncating attributes to a very short level (I'm not sure about the exact limit but it looks like about an ellipsis and a single character). To improve content display, truncation should stop at a longer limit. For instance:

• Name: It should at least display 8 characters
• Size: It should display XX.XX byte long info
• Date: It should at least display the XX.XX.XXXX or the same length equivalent of info
• Type: It should at least be able to display 6-8 characters of info

If possible, maybe an option can be kept to revert to the current behaviour, in case someone likes the status quo better.

[bitigchi]

Can someone modify the title as "Tracker: Minimum truncation limit should be higher" or something more appropriate?

[humdinger]

You mean column width? Frankly, I don't see why we should limit the users' choice here (maybe someone wants just the starting letters of file names in some folder etc.). If it's about the default column width that an app sets, this should be fixed in the misbehaving app.

[bitigchi]

Yep column width. I think it's better UX if we limit the column width at a certain point, maybe it can be overridden with pressing Shift.

[humdinger]

I'd be against this change, as I still don't see it's needed. I never resized a column and thought, "Eww, that's much to narrow, all the best parts of that fiename/attribute is truncated. What to do?". I resize exactly how I like my column width, and if I made it a few pixels to narrow, I move the mouse back a bit in the same motion without having released the mouse button.
Anyway, just my opinion.