I don't think many users care much about it and if it is so that will naturally work for giving it a lower priority.
However I wonder how it has come to this. As I remember the good old days there was always a full qualified path in the copy dialog.
I wrote this in Mint forum but I am not getting much response so I hope a comment from you can make me wiser:
Maybe full qualified path in the copy dialog in tunar actually is a fancy feature to ask for now a days.
Maybe the number of files and folders has become so huge and the names so loooooooong that the procedure of printing and displaying them can't keep up.
So therefore the cost of making every single file visible with it's full qualified path will be a longer copy time.?
I am trying to find a good excuse but maybe a mouse controlled option connected with full screen only, is the best that I can hope for.
Making the option will take skill from the developers but I doubt it needs to use Ram or CPU power as long as it is not in use.
Am I getting this right.?
Maybe the number of files and folders has become so huge and the names so loooooooong that the procedure of printing and displaying them can't keep up. So therefore the cost of making every single file visible with it's full qualified path will be a longer copy time.?
It will not have any effect on the copy time.
The problem rather is, that you don't know how long the path will be, and how huge the dialog possible would look with that path.
Furthermore, I suppose most times the path does not matter to the user, since the user knows where the files he is about to copy are located.
Concluding, I suppose because of the risk of having a huge copy-dialog, and because of the path being not that important, it was just dropped from the dialog.