GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 308615
truncated long strings
Last modified: 2005-06-28 12:42:25 UTC
Why don't add some dot (...) at the end of truncated strings and "auto-add" a baloon (hint) whith the complete text as in windows?
You need to be a lot more specific about where you are looking to see this functionality added.
I'm talking especially about strings in GtkTreeView, GtkIconView, GtkComboBox, GtkComboBoxEntry and GtkMenu but this functionality could be also useful in GtkLabel and GtkButton.
Doing this in tree views, icon views or combo boxes will need tooltip support in cell renderers - this is covered by bug 80980 Doing it in menus will need tooltips to be supported on menus -- this is covered by bug 50619 In general, I think it should be an apps responsibility to set this up, it should not be an automatic side-effect of ellipsizing. I'll close this bug, since 80980/50619 cover the requested features. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80980 ***