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Designer UI truncates long file names, leading to user confusion #709

Open fgmart-zz opened 8 years ago

fgmart-zz commented 8 years ago

If your image filename is too long, it gets shortened for display thusly:

screenshot 2016-02-19 at 10 04 36 am

this leads to user confusion on the actual filename, producing code such as:

screenshot 2016-02-19 at 10 05 55 am

(those are three dots in the filenames, so this code doesn't work.)

Suggestion: implement a tool-tip pop-up with the full filename if you hover over it in the Media box.

fgmart-zz commented 8 years ago

More on this... the user got the incorrect fn's in the blocks by copy-pasting from the Media window.

josmas commented 8 years ago

If we had a dropdown block with all elements in the media drawer (instead of using a text block), this wouldn't happen. There's some work on that right now for Screen names; this could be a good second example.