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Bug 348933 - ellipsize text in quick search bar as required
ellipsize text in quick search bar as required
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Johnny Jacob
Evolution QA team
Depends on: 440963
Blocks: 341452
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-27 13:58 UTC by Danielle Madeley
Modified: 2009-06-08 16:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16

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example (15.95 KB, image/png)
2006-07-27 13:59 UTC, Danielle Madeley 		Details

Description Danielle Madeley 2006-07-27 13:58:58 UTC 
Ellipsizing the text if the bar is too small would look significantly better IMHO.
Comment 1 Danielle Madeley 2006-07-27 13:59:53 UTC 
Created attachment 69730 [details]
example

An example image to demonstrate what I mean.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2006-07-28 14:08:40 UTC 
correct.
jony, reassigning this bug to you as you wrote that code. :-)
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:27:50 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 4 Matthew Barnes 2009-06-08 14:01:19 UTC 
GtkEntry does not support ellipsizing, unfortunately.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2009-06-08 14:23:52 UTC 
Where is the GtkEntry feature request ID this valid request is blocked by?
Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2009-06-08 16:36:05 UTC 
Given that we're abusing GtkEntry to show these search hints, I'm certain such a request would be rejected by GTK+ maintainers on grounds that you should never ellipsize user input.

Ross filed bug #440963 to add the hinting capability directly to GtkEntry, where I expect ellipsizing would be done automatically.  Unfortunately he got some push back from GTK+ maintainers.

The request IS valid, but manually ellipsizing UTF-8 text is not at all trivial and I'm not willing to do the work.  That's why I closed this WONTFIX.