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Key: IDEA-16920
Type: Usability Problem Usability Problem
Status: Open Open
Assignee: Kirill Kalishev
Reporter: Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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"Choose Destination Directory" dialog often hides the interesting part of paths

Created: 20 Jan 08 21:23   Updated: 21 Jan 08 21:01
Component/s: Editor. Code Completion

Build: 7,590


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When IDEA project lives in a deep directory (In my case /home/kohsuke/ws/hudson/hudson/main/ is deep enough to cause this), the "choose destination dialog" is too narrow to initially display the interesting part of paths (e.g., core/src/main/java vs core/src/main/resources.)

As a result, I have to either take a chance or use a mouse to scroll before I can choose the directory. This is not nice.

There are several options here:

  • Just make the dialog bigger by default, although this is not a fundamental solution
  • instead of "/home/kohsuke/ws/hudson/hudson/main/core/src/main/java", do it like "core/src/main/java (in home/kohsuke/ws/hudson/hudson/main)" So that the interesting part comes first, to the left
  • Scroll the tree view all the way to the right when it initially appears

Any other solution is welcome, as long as I can select the directory w/o using a mouse.



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