GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 404457
excessive long Icon name text is shown on top of lower neighbour
Last modified: 2012-09-19 23:53:46 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I create a icon with a large text, this overlap to next icon. See the attachment. Maybe, the text of desktop icons could to limit. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Created attachment 81902 [details] The screenshot of the bug
Indeed a problem. But what would be the best fix?.
we should probably abbreviate text like "example icon text..." instead of "example icon text the will be on top of other icons"
This problem is also not limited to vertically overlapping, desktop labels can overlap other desktop icons' spaces horizontally too. Are there no settings for spacing? "Keep aligned" should change spacing between columns and rows to prevent this overlap.
This seems obsolete as I just tried and the text only overlaps on mouse over. Can you confirm? I was using nautilus 2.31.2 (but 2.30 should probably be enough).
(In reply to comment #5) > This seems obsolete as I just tried and the text only overlaps on mouse over. > Can you confirm? I was using nautilus 2.31.2 (but 2.30 should probably be > enough). No I just checked on my F13 Gnome 2.30 installation and when aligning icons next to each other, the text will still overlap the other icon, even if not moused over.
Created attachment 165577 [details] Screenshot not showing any bug (?) Jonathan, not sure I understand what's wrong here. This is what I get when I create a bunch of files with long filenames in nautilus 2.30 (ubuntu lucid).
(In reply to comment #7) > Created an attachment (id=165577) [details] > Screenshot not showing any bug (?) > > Jonathan, not sure I understand what's wrong here. This is what I get when I > create a bunch of files with long filenames in nautilus 2.30 (ubuntu lucid). I don't see that. Although I've now just realised that this may be due to some not updated configuration files, as my home directory is from two Fedora versions ago, but I'm running Fedora 13 with Gnome 2.30
(In reply to comment #7) > Created an attachment (id=165577) [details] > Screenshot not showing any bug (?) > > Jonathan, not sure I understand what's wrong here. This is what I get when I > create a bunch of files with long filenames in nautilus 2.30 (ubuntu lucid). I bothered to do a clean install of Fedora 13 to test this, still seeing the exact same behaviour -- overlapping filenames -- just as before.
Created attachment 165751 [details] From Fedora 13, Gnome 2.30, still showing an alignment bug? To further illustrate the symptoms of an alignment bug that I am continuing to see, despite having Fedora 13 with Gnome 2.30 I am attaching a screenshot of my desktop. I have aligned the icons to show the sort of grid alignment issues that are occurring.
Now I see. What you mean is the "Keep aligned" option still overlaps icons - and we should make the grid much bigger (probably twice in width and enable it vertically as it seems to be disabled) - right? I must have misread something because I thought really really long names wasn't cut with "..." in the end. So, Cosimoc, should we make the grid larger? (or what you call it) Personally, I don't see this as a big problem as I'd like to layout my icons wherever I want and only get a slight help from the alignment.
Seems changing these defs in nautilus-icon-container.c would change the behavior; /* Desktop layout mode defines */ #define DESKTOP_PAD_HORIZONTAL 10 #define DESKTOP_PAD_VERTICAL 10 #define SNAP_SIZE_X 78 #define SNAP_SIZE_Y 20 Cosimoc?
Created attachment 177642 [details] Screenshot of the bug on the desktop with labels besides icons This happens also with desktop_labels_beside_icons. The screenshot shows that, on the desktop, the entire filename is displayed on one line with no ellipsis. The expected behaviour is that the filename is wrapped to multiple lines with an ellipsis added (and shown fully only when selected/edited).
Created attachment 177644 [details] Screenshot of the bug with labels besides icons, underlapping chrome Similarly, for labels_beside_icons, the filename can overlap upwards beyond the content area. Since the full filename is shown, the label becomes too tall to be fully visible. The expected behaviour is for the filename to be truncated, and for the label to be shifted downwards when selected/edited.
[Bumping version number as per comment 6]
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154722 ***