GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 722582
Options in some drop-down menus are too wordy and not visible in their totality
Last modified: 2014-10-21 18:03:33 UTC
Created attachment 266697 [details] example of criptic options This is the upstream reporting for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-tweak-tool/+bug/1248736, reported for an older version, but still here with 3.10. Also it affects other parts of the text when font is too big. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-tweak-tool/+bug/1241608 A lot of options on the dropdown menus on gnome-tweak-tool, especially in "Typing", are long (probably they should be) and are impossible to differentiate... see for example the screenshot attached. Probably a different kind of interface should be used. Or a tooltip should emerge on hovering on the option with the full text.
I just ran into this and had to reference this bug report to disambiguate the options because many of the options were visually identical. Like the reporter, I had particular difficulty in "Typing". I expected a tooltip, but nothing appeared when I hovered. I think a combination of tooltip text and shortening the description text would be useful, for example: Caps lock: - Map to ESC - Map to Backspace - Map to Ctrl - Swap with ESC - Swap with ... The use of "Caps Lock" in the description is unnecessary since it's already been associated via the label. If this has to do with accessibility (screen readers), would a more wordy tooltip text help offset a more concise label?
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 711137 ***