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Bug 700940 - Show tool-tip for applications with long names
Show tool-tip for applications with long names
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 687969
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: overview
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-05-24 07:47 UTC by Age Bosma (IRC: Forage)
Modified: 2013-05-24 09:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Age Bosma (IRC: Forage) 2013-05-24 07:47:12 UTC 
The application list in the overview can contain applications with long names. Names are truncated when they are more than 16 characters long. This makes it hard to find the appropriate application when multiple similar items are present.

E.g.:
- Passwords and K...

- Oracle Java 7 Pol...
- Oracle Java 7 Plu...
- Oracle Java 7 Vis...
- Oracle Java 7 W...

- AMD Catalyst Co...
- AMD Catalyst Co...

Where one of the AMD's is the admin version but you can know which.

It would be nice to display a tool-tip with the complete name when you hover over those items.
An alternative would be to extent the name line to a multi-line text when an icon is either selected with the keyboard or when hovering over the icon with the mouse.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2013-05-24 09:36:12 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 687969 ***