[Thunar-dev] disable the "xG removable media" label

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erlend Davidson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the latest Thunar shows my USB-stick as a "1G removeable media" ("1G
>> entfernbarer Datenträger" in German), because I didn't set a label when
>> I formated it. Of course I could set the label now...
>> In my eyes, the 1G... thingie s too long for the left pane, 
>>   
> "1G removeble media" is a pretty useful name actually.  Size is a good 
> way of telling the devices apart if they don't have a label - even 
> non-technical users would find this easy to use.
> 
> The problem I see here is with long labels in thunar for any device.  
> For example if I insert a CD labelled "Photographs from Holiday" this 
> pushs the divider over to the right to fit all the letters in, which 
> looks a little ugly and means my three columns on icons in the 
> right-pane becomes just two.  Also, when I remove the device thunar 
> doesn't move the divider back again.

Unless you're using an older version of Thunar, this shouldn't happen
anymore. The text renderer used for the shortcuts pane will
automatically ellipsize the name.

> Erlend

Benedikt