GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 123989
"Bookmarks" menu truncation
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Help:About indicates "Epiphany 1.0" I am running the latest epiphany-browser from Debian unstable as of 10/6/2003. Package is epiphany-browser version 1.0-1. Entries in the "Bookmarks" menu trunk as well as in the Topics brances are truncated at about 32 characters. Without having to try and come up with novel abbreviations I find that this is frequently insufficient to allow me to determine quickly whether the bookmark refers to the particular document I am looking for. Is it reasonable to make the truncation width a function of the number of characters in the bookmark entry, against the width of the browser window, for both the main trunk of the "Bookmarks" menu and sub menus (Topics menus)? Thank you.
> Is it reasonable to make the truncation width a function of the number > of characters in the bookmark entry, I don't think that's a good idea, because truncation was introduced precisely to avoid having overlong bookmark titles make the menu too wide; so having the longest bm title decide the truncation length it contrary to that goal. > Entries in the "Bookmarks" menu trunk as well as in the Topics > brances are truncated at about 32 characters. Looking at the source code, it's 30 chars including the ellipsis character. Maybe as a short term solution this limit could be slightly increased, maybe to 40 at max. But: even 30 characters is already too much for titles consisting mainly of fullwidth (CJK) characters... not sure what to do here. In the long run, the solution is to implement the suggestions from bug 116637.
Tested again, and 30 is really very wide already... so it's either WONTFIX or DUPLICATE of the "smart sizing" bug... doing that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116637 ***