GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 706941
Some options in "Typing" section are longer than the field and you...
Last modified: 2013-08-28 11:37:41 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!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 704149 ***