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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Patch in rev735, it is now an option in the context menu called "show full
page name".

-- Jaap

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Dmitrij Lisov <dmt.lsv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jaap, thank you very much!
>
> 2014-09-08 13:12 GMT+02:00 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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