Bug 691235 – Show full launcher's title

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Bug 691235 - Show full launcher's title


Summary:	Show full launcher's title


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 663725

Product:	gnome-shell
Classification:	Core
Component:	general
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gnome-shell-maint
QA Contact:	gnome-shell-maint

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Reported:	2013-01-06 17:03 UTC by Daniel Mustieles
Modified:	2013-01-08 12:08 UTC

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Same icon and same name example (448.53 KB, image/png) 2013-01-06 17:03 UTC, Daniel Mustieles	Details

Description Daniel Mustieles 2013-01-06 17:03:23 UTC

Created attachment 232867 [details]
Same icon and same name example

When the launcher's grid is shown, it doesn't show the full launcher's title, and it might be a incovenient in some cases. In the screenshot, you can see two launchers with the same icon and the same "splitted" name, but they are different applications (Tweak tool and control center).

If showing the full name of the launcher is not possible, it should be at least shown whe hovering the launcher, to avoid confussions.

Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2013-01-06 18:04:57 UTC

Yeah, this is bug 663725, which has been buried for some time now.

But maybe the translation of the control center and tweak tool names should be improved too. What are the full strings exactly?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 663725 ***

Comment 2 Daniel Mustieles 2013-01-08 12:08:16 UTC

For the spanish language, they are "Configuración del sistema" and "Configuración avanzada". In this case, we cannot change the translation :(

I will add some comments in the "main" bug, since it would be very interesting if it could be fixed for 3.8 without changing translations nor original names.

Thanks!