GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 699948
Label for "laptop lid, when closed will suspend even if there is an external moni..." does not fit in the default gnome-tweak-tool window
Last modified: 2013-08-12 10:02:28 UTC
Am currently running Fedora 18. I installed gnome-tweak-tool using yum via fedora repositories. Label for "laptop lid, when closed will suspend even if there is an external moni..." does not fit in the default gnome-tweak-tool window. I am not able to maximize the window either to see the full label text of the option am being provided.
Created attachment 243618 [details] Screenshot of gnome-tweak-tool showing incomplete option label
G-t-t does not modify the label, it comes from the schema. This bug should be against gnome-settings-daemon (power plugin, I think). I think the key description comes from org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power key:lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor The key should have a shorter description.
Hello, John > This bug should be against gnome-settings-daemon (power plugin, I think). Could you please confirm so I could close this bug and file it where appropriate? > The key should have a shorter description. Or at least the labels in GNOME Tweak tool should be wrapped, no?
(In reply to comment #2) > The key should have a shorter description. Errm, no. I don't think we're going to file a few dozens of bug reports against languages that use longer strings especially if there was no translator comment to use a short string whatever "short" means) - the correct fix would be line wrapping, as Sindhu already wrote.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #2) > > The key should have a shorter description. > > Errm, no. I don't think we're going to file a few dozens of bug reports against > languages that use longer strings especially if there was no translator comment > to use a short string whatever "short" means) - the correct fix would be line > wrapping, as Sindhu already wrote. Meh, its relative. I'm sure the g-t-t UI will look more like shit if I wrap all long strings, historically I have encouraged the schema to be corrected. This has, from memory, caused many schemas to marked translatable and to have previously insane description strings made more sane. I thought those sort of improvements were beneficial for the platform.... Of course, now g-t-t is a bit more popular maybe I should just maintain translated descriptions of everything. But would that benefit the platform and be worth the translator burden? All for wrapping one string?
While the key should have a shorter description in this case, lets not assume that the description would be the same length in all languages/using all fonts and allow it to be broken over multiple lines. In this case, a poor sting shows an underlying problem from my point of view.
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850680
Created attachment 251318 [details] gnome-tweak-tool-font-size-eliding-problem.png As you can see the problem even happens for English with only slighly bigger font sizes. To see all text in this example, the font sizes has to be made *very* small. Please at least make the gnome-tweak-tool window resizable, then resizing the window can be used as a workaround to see the full text.
Created attachment 251322 [details] gnome-tweak-tool-text-elided-in-all-languages-in-many-places.png As you can see in this screenshot, the eliding happens in practically all languages (English, German, and Japanese shown in the screen shot) and in *many* places. My screen shot only shows the “Typing” tab, but it is almost everywhere.
(In reply to comment #5) > All for wrapping one string? It is not just one string, the problem occurs in many places.
Also obsoleted by new UI design *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 704149 ***