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.

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!