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Bug 756740 - Items in system status menu ellipsize important information
Items in system status menu ellipsize important information
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 708472
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: system-status
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-17 08:33 UTC by Lubomír Sedlář
Modified: 2015-10-17 11:04 UTC
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2015-10-17 08:33 UTC, Lubomír Sedlář 		Details

Description Lubomír Sedlář 2015-10-17 08:33:52 UTC 
Created attachment 313518 [details]
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The new system status menu in 3.18 looks great. However, if the menu items are a bit longer, they are ellipsized. This can be a problem. For example in cs_CZ locale, the wi-fi label is ellipsized and does not actually show the status: the text says that "Wi-fi is hardware …", but it is not clear if it is enabled or disabled.

I did not find a way to get it to display the full text. There is no tooltip, clicking on it actually hides even more of it (by making it bold and therefore wider).

In my opinion, it would be better if the whole menu was wider rather than hiding important text.
Comment 1 drago01 2015-10-17 11:04:55 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed in the code repository.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708472 ***