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Bug 161188 - too long calendar item texts should have a tooltip
too long calendar item texts should have a tooltip
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: clock
2.28.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 303686 350516 466975 568500 622831 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 80980
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-13 18:54 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Initial patch (3.83 KB, patch)
2008-05-16 03:17 UTC, Matthew Barnes
reviewed Details | Review

Description Sebastien Bacher 2004-12-13 18:54:52 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/2746

"The birthday reminder is a little too long in french locale to fit in the clock
applet, and thus it is impossible to know whose birthday it is without launching
evolution. This is just a minor problem (since I generally know whose birthday
it is).

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=602
A screenshot of the calendar applet"
Comment 1 Rodd Clarkson 2005-03-11 04:03:59 UTC
This is a problem for more than just birthdays.  Any entry in the Tasks or
Calendar items that is too long for the space can often be truncated so as to
make the entry unclear.

How hard would is be to add a 'popup hint thingy thingy' (my words escape me,
but the same things that pop up when you hover over Applications Menu items)
that shows the whole entry?
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2005-03-11 07:55:36 UTC
Rodd: you probably mean 'tooltip' :-) That's the plan. The problem is that
currently, GTK+ does not support tooltips on treeview rows... See bug #80980
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2005-06-25 22:34:21 UTC
*** Bug 303686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Teppo Turtiainen 2006-08-16 14:54:25 UTC
*** Bug 350516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Anne Hendrik Buist 2006-12-16 19:53:07 UTC
Maybe it is possible to make the whole calendar-popup-window wider. I find it rather annoying that all tasks that appear are cut off very early, so those are sometimes hard to read. Furthermore, I think it looks more professional if the whole task/line can be seen, even if that means it needs to wrap over multiple lines per task. So maybe making the calendar-popup thice as wide, so you can view this month and the next, in combination with wrapping lines.

I could live with a popup though.
Comment 6 Dominik Sandjaja 2007-04-12 15:16:09 UTC
As the mentioned GTK+-Problem seems to be solved (#80980), is there any progress on this one? In German, I also have the problem with not seeing, whose birthday it is. Also, seeing some more information like e.g. the place in a tooltip would be nice, that would simplify my university-schedule-handling a lot... :)
Comment 7 Nicolò Chieffo 2007-09-24 20:09:58 UTC
In my opinion this does not only apply for too long text summary.
Other information, such as time of finish, duration, place is needed to be shown in the tooltip...
Comment 8 Matthew Barnes 2008-05-16 03:17:18 UTC
Created attachment 110986 [details] [review]
Initial patch

Here's a patch to get the ball rolling.  It shows a simple text tooltip containing the item's summary, but I'm sure there's more we could do here.

I'm open to suggestions.
Comment 9 Rodd Clarkson 2008-05-16 23:20:44 UTC
I'd like the send the ending time for events (where they exist).

All events state when they start (which is obviously necessary) but often, knowing when something ends is just as important.

For example, if my son is at a Party, then I need to know when to drop him off and when to pick him up.

Currently I have to access this second bit of information by going to the calendar view in evolution.  Which I don't even use to populate calendar information since it all comes from my palm pilot using sync.  It would be great to have this information in a much more accessible place.
Comment 10 Cosimo Cecchi 2009-07-17 13:25:40 UTC
This initial patch looks great to me, though I'm not a gnome-panel maintainer.
Should we commit it and gradually iterate from there?
Comment 11 André Klapper 2009-07-27 22:09:54 UTC
*** Bug 466975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 André Klapper 2009-12-19 21:50:49 UTC
I'd vote for simply committing this.
Comment 13 André Klapper 2009-12-19 21:50:53 UTC
*** Bug 568500 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 André Klapper 2010-06-28 07:59:17 UTC
*** Bug 622831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:23:11 UTC
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