GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 739736
Nautilus/Files preferences window is much too wide (takes width from single-line label)
Last modified: 2015-08-23 17:21:21 UTC
Created attachment 290103 [details] screenshot of how the preference window looks after opening (in German) It looks like the width of the preferences window is determined by the length of the description label in the "Display" tab (and the label doesn't wrap). In German, this label is a bit longer than in English, so the window is really really wide, see attached screenshot. Even in English it's noticeable that it's a bit too wide. The window size should probably not be determined by that label, but instead the label should wrap. This is with Files 3.14.0, GTK+ 3.14.4, Fedora 21.
Dear Nautilus maintainers, this is due to a change in GTK 3.12+. See bug #729532 for the solution. Bug #728218 is an example of an implementation of the fix.
Created attachment 298208 [details] Preferences window in nautilus master Is this bug still valid? I opened the preferences dialog in nautilus 3.15, and the labels seem to be wrapping just fine.
Can't test on 3.15 yet, but from your screenshot it looks like the label now wraps and the window has a sane size. Let's close this, I can always reopen it.
I'm still seeing this with the fr_CA.UTF8 locale on 3.16.
Same with de_DE on 3.16 (Fedora 22).
Created attachment 305682 [details] [review] Wrap a long label Some of the labels in the preferences tends to have very long labels. Limit their width to 65 characters and allow them to break.
Attachment 305682 [details] pushed as f40609d - Wrap a long label
Created attachment 309892 [details] [review] Fix line wrapping in file properties dialog Previously GTK+ picked some default width for these labels.
Comment on attachment 309892 [details] [review] Fix line wrapping in file properties dialog (Wrong bug)