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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, thanks for checking. Will look into it. Probably I can make it an
option in the context menu or similar.

Regards,

Jaap



On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Dmitrij Lisov <dmt.lsv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jaap, thanks for your reply!
>
> I'm on Zim Snapshot 728, but the issue still remains, because nothing has
> changed. Besides, the name of some of my top-level notes is quite long, so
> that it won't make any sense to show the full path with top-level notes
> only, because the title of the sub-note won't be shown anyway.
>
> Therefore I would appreciate a way to restore the old tag view, as an
> option in the options menu of Zim.
>
> Best!
>
> 2014-09-01 20:47 GMT+02:00 Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> I have an update pending in the current development code that will only
>> show the full path for the toplevel notes, but not for child notes. This is
>> how I intended it, but unfortunately did not implement correctly in the
>> current release.
>>
>> If you are on Ubuntu you can try the latest snapshot version
>> https://launchpad.net/~jaap.karssenberg/+archive/ubuntu/zim-snapshots to
>> see the updated behavior. Hope that works better for you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jaap
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Dmitrij Lisov <dmt.lsv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Would the status-bar solution be suitable for your needs?
>>>
>>> It may makes sense to show the full path in connection with the journal,
>>> but at the same time the navigation gets incredibly difficult with notes
>>> within subpages...
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-09-01 18:01 GMT+02:00 Thomas Harning Jr. <harningt@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sep 1, 2014 11:57 AM, "Dmitrij Lisov" <dmt.lsv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hey,
>>>> >
>>>> > after the 718 revision (
>>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jaap.karssenberg/zim/pyzim/revision/718)
>>>> the tag index shows the whole path of a note, instead only its name, if a
>>>> tag is selected.
>>>> >
>>>> > Take for example a note within several subnotes. If you click on a
>>>> tag, you'll only see the beginning of the note's path in the tag index,
>>>> what is a usability disaster, because there is not enough space to display
>>>> the actual name of the note! The tag index is quite unusable right now for
>>>> people with a lot of notes within subnotes, so that the path of a note has
>>>> a certain length, that doesn't fit in the, mostly, small side pane.
>>>> >
>>>> > Was there any rational reason to implement that?
>>>> >
>>>> > I suggest to restore the old view again, and show the full path only
>>>> in the status bar, when the mouse-pointer hovers over the note, like it's
>>>> already done with URL and links to other notes. A tool-tip would also be
>>>> sufficient, but the small delay until it appears could slow the workflow.
>>>> The status-bar solution would work instantly though and therefore should be
>>>> preferred.
>>>> >
>>>> > If someone, for any reason, desperately needs this kind of view,
>>>> where the full path of a note is shown, then there should be at least an
>>>> option to switch to the previous view again.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks in advance!
>>>> >
>>>> I had brought this fix in mind because with tag filtering, a tagged
>>>> journal is a horrible mess of days with no year/month context.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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