One of my earliest UX wins was for Mac System 7. The Finder team wanted to truncate files names with '…' if it wouldn’t fit. I argued that too much critical info would be lost and suggested it be in the middle instead. The Finder team loved it and implemented it later that day. They were so easy to work with.
I'd totally forgotten about it until I overheard someone commenting it was an example of Apple's attention to detail. I'd didn't say anything at the time but yeah, that was me ;-)
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@scottjenson Filed a feature request for KDE Plasma’s Dolphin. :)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497664
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@frumble @scottjenson i had the same thought!
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@irina @scottjenson It’s now implemented! \o/
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@irina @scottjenson They already had it in 2019 but reversed it in 2020 due to complaints of (presumably) devs. This truncation scheme is more suited to naturally named files than tech files.
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@frumble @irina that's surprising to me as the key information you're losing with end truncation is a) file extension and b) any version number. Both of those seem very dev friendly
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@scottjenson @irina It was even conserving the file extension:
https://phabricator.kde.org/D19471
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