GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 645693
Calendar day names and "all day" badly ellipsized in French
Last modified: 2013-01-10 10:48:25 UTC
See attached screenshot. French for "All day" is "Toute la journée", which is much longer and gets ellipsized. Even worse are day names, which don't appear at all. This is probably because they are longer than English ones: they're "Dim.", "Lun.", "Mar.", "Mer.", "Jeu.", "Ven.", "Sam." (from Sunday to Saturday). Maybe we can get rid of the extraneous dot, but generally it would be good for the Shell to support locales that need wide labels by expanding the view (there's plenty of space left anyway). I'd say it's a blocker for 3.0, unless we consider it's up to translators to use shorter abbreviations (but that's likely not possible everywhere).
Created attachment 184254 [details] Screenshot of the buggy calendar view
Created attachment 184712 [details] [review] gnome-shell.css: fix multiple calendar layout issues Specifying absolute pixel widths for fields breaks under both font scaling and translation. Change all px lengths in the calendar to corresponding pt values, to fix the layout under larger/smaller font sizes. Change all "width" specifications to "min-width", for languages with longer translations. This completely breaks the layout if any field exceeds the min-width of its column, but that is preferable to ellipsizing. Needs to be redone using St.Table or the like for 3.0.1. Also add padding to the right of the calendar popup to match the padding on the left, since the lack of it becomes more obvious in layouts where the actual width exceeds the minimum width.
The patch solves the bug for "All day", but the day names for appointments happening this week still appear as "..."
Created attachment 184806 [details] [review] gnome-shell.css: fix multiple calendar layout issues oops, missed one
Last patch works fine, indeed.
Review of attachment 184806 [details] [review]: > Change all px lengths in the calendar to corresponding pt values, to > fix the layout under larger/smaller font sizes. Is sort of confusing because there are some px left - like the overall width of the calendar. (which this patch changes to a min-width) - that shows up at small font sizes. But the contents of the patch look fully safe to me, and it works in testing. Good pending r-t approval.
Review of attachment 184806 [details] [review]: Signed off by r-t https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2011-April/msg00022.html
Comment on attachment 184806 [details] [review] gnome-shell.css: fix multiple calendar layout issues pushed. leaving the bug open so we can eventually fix it without breaking the alignment Attachment 184806 [details] pushed as 6b95a35 - gnome-shell.css: fix multiple calendar layout issues
*** Bug 651325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 658679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug has been fixed, can it be marked resolved/fixed please?
Sure... ;-)