On 18 February 09, Rajko M. wrote:

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 09:49:31 am JB2 wrote:

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Hiya gang,

I'm finally getting around to asking this question. In the picture, when I mouse on 'open recent' a list pops up next to it. Every item in the list also has the location of that item after it in brackets '[ ]'. I hate this as it makes the list way too large and harder to read. In SuSE 9.3 and earlier, this never happened, only on this 10.3 (I presume).

How do I get rid of the garbage in the brackets? There's nothing in the 'settings' that does anything about it.

John

That seems to be in all KDE programs having Open Recent option. I checked KWrite and Kate and it is the same.

<sigh>...I just checked Kate also and you're correct, it does it there too. This is sad. It used to be that my Linux system allowed me to be in charge, change things as *I* wanted them. Now it seems it's more and more becoming the behemoth that Microshaft is and *telling* its users what they need and giving less and less ability to set it up as the *user* wants it. Sad days indeed. :( -- There are two types of motorcycles...Harleys and not Harleys. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:03:20 Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Wednesday February 18 2009, JB2 wrote:

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On 18 February 09, Rajko M. wrote:

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On Tuesday 17 February 2009 09:49:31 am JB2 wrote:

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I'm finally getting around to asking this question. In the picture, when I mouse on 'open recent' a list pops up next to it. Every item in the list also has the location of that item after it in brackets '[ ]'. ...

How do I get rid of the garbage in the brackets? There's nothing in the 'settings' that does anything about it.

John

That seems to be in all KDE programs having Open Recent option. I checked KWrite and Kate and it is the same.

<sigh>...I just checked Kate also and you're correct, it does it there too.

This is sad. It used to be that my Linux system allowed me to be in charge, change things as *I* wanted them. ...

I think the OP confuses the illusion that an army of open source coders exists to read his mind and implement everything he desires with happiness. The freedom to use the source, change it as I wants and participate in improving it gives me more material feelings of warmth and being in control.

They don't come much more control freakish than I, so I won't (wouldn't) suggest that such control wouldn't be useful.

I think, though, that the reason for it is that many files with a given base name may occur, and presenting the full path name helps disambiguate in this situation.

You're right.

So at a minimum, they could be more selective and show the full names only when that information actually does disambiguate the overall list.

Should be a doddle for anyone with C++ 101 and an ounce of DIY: http://lxr.kde.org/source/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/actions/krecentfilesaction.cpp#2... The simplest approach is to iterate the list of RecentFiles once before the current for loop, first counting each unique nameValue, then in the current loop only add the "[" + value + "]" if the count is greater than one. You'd want something like QHash (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qhash.html) to store the counts. Any takers? Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday February 19 2009, Rajko M. wrote:

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I need a motive to learn C++ 101j ...

Danger, Will Robinson! -or- There be dragons. I was doing C++ before most, but it's been a long time. It's a gnarly language, but I feel sort of fond of it, still. Nowadays I'm more drawn to Clojure and Scala, both of which I'm learning in the interstices of free time available to me.

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-- Regards, Rajko

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On 19 February 09, Will Stephenson wrote:

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:03:20 Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Wednesday February 18 2009, JB2 wrote:

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On 18 February 09, Rajko M. wrote:

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On Tuesday 17 February 2009 09:49:31 am JB2 wrote:

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I'm finally getting around to asking this question. In the picture, when I mouse on 'open recent' a list pops up next to it. Every item in the list also has the location of that item after it in brackets '[ ]'. ...

How do I get rid of the garbage in the brackets? There's nothing in the 'settings' that does anything about it.

John

That seems to be in all KDE programs having Open Recent option. I checked KWrite and Kate and it is the same.

<sigh>...I just checked Kate also and you're correct, it does it there too.

This is sad. It used to be that my Linux system allowed me to be in charge, change things as *I* wanted them. ...

I think the OP confuses the illusion that an army of open source coders exists to read his mind and implement everything he desires with happiness. The freedom to use the source, change it as I wants and participate in improving it gives me more material feelings of warmth and being in control.

Since you don't care to try to understand the phrase 'Don't fix what ain't broke' and decided that since I've asked and looked in all the places I could that *normally* *would* allow me to 'fix' something to work as *I* like it to, I get to say that you *DO NOT* 'think'. Quit doing it, it makes you look bad and you don't seem to be very good at it.

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They don't come much more control freakish than I, so I won't (wouldn't) suggest that such control wouldn't be useful.

I think, though, that the reason for it is that many files with a given base name may occur, and presenting the full path name helps disambiguate in this situation.

You're right.

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So at a minimum, they could be more selective and show the full names only when that information actually does disambiguate the overall list.

Should be a doddle for anyone with C++ 101 and an ounce of DIY:

Guess what, oh know-it-all? Not everyone can program! Weird huh? Are you an ass from birth or do you work hard to be one? If anything should and would have been a "doddle", it would have been some simple way of turning that crap *OFF*. Hey, oh babbling whiner...can you DIY a complete turnkey motor for your vehicle in your garage...without a book? Can you work on a Harley motor without a book? I "DIY" lots of things that you can't, and vice-versa, so pull your head out. -- The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Will Stephenson wrote:

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So at a minimum, they could be more selective and show the full names only when that information actually does disambiguate the overall list.

Even better would be something like a tooltip that pops up with the path when you hover over the name. That would solve the OP's problem _and_ disambiguate the names. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Thursday February 19 2009, John E. Perry wrote:

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So at a minimum, they could be more selective and show the full names only when that information actually does disambiguate the overall list. Even better would be something like a tooltip that pops up with the

Will Stephenson wrote: path when you hover over the name. That would solve the OP's problem _and_ disambiguate the names.

Ugh. Tooltips are getting out of control lately. Take the tooltips that appeared in a recent minor revision KMail when you hover over a mailbox in the mailbox list. Very obtrusive. And if you look at the Java IDE IDEA (sometimes called IntelliJ after its original vendor), you'll see the extreme of tooltips. They drive me nuts.

Sometimes tooltips have irritated me, too, especially those that come up with no delay, and those that give no real information. But when used well in appropriate settings, they are a huge advance over either the kind of obtrusive excess of information the OP complained about (which Will's scheme wouldn't really help, in my opinion), or the total absence of helpful information that the path information was supposed to fix. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org