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Bug 706941 - Some options in "Typing" section are longer than the field and you...
Some options in "Typing" section are longer than the field and you...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 704149
Product: gnome-tweak-tool
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-08-27 23:10 UTC by Ryan Reamsbottom
Modified: 2013-08-28 11:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
the typing section of tweak tool, with issue areas noted (66.25 KB, image/jpeg)
2013-08-27 23:10 UTC, Ryan Reamsbottom
Details

Description Ryan Reamsbottom 2013-08-27 23:10:47 UTC
Created attachment 253330 [details]
the typing section of tweak tool, with issue areas noted

In the typing section, there are several entries like:

- Use keyboard LED to show alternati...
- Use space key to input non-breaka...
- Adding Esperanto circumflexes (sup...

and so on.


In many cases, it's unclear what exactly these options do.  Since gnome-tweak-tool has a fixed window size, we can't see the whole option.


Additionally, some of the options themselves suffer from the same problem.  Under Alt/Win key behavior, one of the options is "Control is mapped to Alt keys, Alt is mapp...". 


It's just not enough information to go off of in many cases.  This could be fixed by using shorter labels, but often it's hard to communicate the amount of information required in such short a space.  Is this a bug in the usability of GTK?  I don't know, but maybe we can do something about it here.


Attached is a screenshot, although I hope my explanation has been clear.

Thanks!
Comment 1 John Stowers 2013-08-28 11:37:41 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 704149 ***