GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661114
Control center's icon grid view does not handle big font sizes
Last modified: 2017-11-28 19:17:36 UTC
Created attachment 198464 [details] screenshot As you can see in the attached screenshot, if you bump up gnome's font size settings to 2x, gnome-control-center breaks up pretty badly :) Big font sizes like that are necessary for visually impaired users or for media center use cases.
The maximum available in the UI is 1.5, and visually impaired users that would need "bigger" text would most likely use the magnifier.
Created attachment 198533 [details] screenshot at 1.2x Well, it also breaks at 1.2x (when turning on the accessibility menu's "Big text" switch), as you can see with this new screenshot. It's just a bit less obvious so I forgot to report it before ;) I'm guessing the icon grid uses a fixed width? Perhaps it would be possible to multiply the width of the cells by a factor depending on the font scale?
The clipping is GtkIconView's fault. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 647087 ***
Fixed in master for English, will need en_* translations if we want to see this in GNOME 3.20 or older. commit b3be07609a9bae43947ee3e59d8982a7715c9acf Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Thu Apr 7 14:22:50 2016 +0200 panels: Fix truncated panel names for larger fonts Note that this fix will not automatically fix translations, which will need to add soft-hyphens (U+00AD) to their translations themselves, and will not fix larger fonts for which the split up syllables end up being bigger than the maximum text width. It's the best we can do without redesigning the Settings shell, which is already something planned. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647087#c13 Translators, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.internationalization.general/33633 for more information.
The old shell is gone (bug #790923), and the new one doesn’t have this problem.