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Bug 694278 - Allow window captions to be wider than window thumbnails
Allow window captions to be wider than window thumbnails
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: overview
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: 695026
 
 
Reported: 2013-02-20 15:10 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2021-07-05 14:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Allan Day 2013-02-20 15:10:14 UTC 
Right now, window captions are restricted to the width of the window thumbnail. This can lead to some really short window captions, sometimes with only a few characters. This looks really bad and makes it hard to identify the windows.

To fix this we should:

 * Allow captions to be wider than their thumbnails.
 * If the window caption string requires space that is wider than the thumbnail, allow the caption to expand up to a preset limit.
Comment 1 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2013-03-02 21:56:09 UTC 
Will you prevent overlap by shrinking the thumbnails? Word wrap?
Comment 2 Allan Day 2013-03-02 23:37:15 UTC 
What do you mean by word wrap? Line wrap? I suppose that in some cases this would result in smaller thumbnails.
Comment 3 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2013-03-02 23:39:50 UTC 
I guess I'd need to see a mockup of what you're proposing.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 14:19:26 UTC 
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