Open file dialog exceeds screen width while selecting very long directory path

Hello everyone,

I am running ParaView on Ubuntu 22.04 by executing it directly from the binary files provided on the ParaView download page.
I am encountering a minor issue while trying to open files with very long paths.
The ‘Open file’ screen becomes to wide and exceeds the screen limit so that just a dialog portion is visible, I think this happens since the dialog window shows you the entire path and to do so it becomes to wide.
The window cannot be resized but I can slide it to read and reach buttons.
Is there a way to resize the window or an option to ‘compress’ the file path to reduce dialog width?
Of course the best solution would be to use a shorter path but I’d like to keep files organized in multiple subdirectories.

Thank you in advance

I’m afraid this require a small code change, it should be trivial to fix though.

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Okay, got it! I’ll wait for the fix then. Thank you!

Well, someone need to do the fix though! Do you want to contribute to fix it ?

Unfortunately I don’t think I am that good at software development since I’ve never done it, I don’t want to mess anything up, sorry!

Then you may want to open an issue on https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues, maybe a dev will pick it up :slight_smile:

Okay I’ll do that. Thank you very much for your help!

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