GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 771027
Missing hyphen in overview labels
Last modified: 2017-08-16 20:43:13 UTC
Created attachment 335032 [details] Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with gnome-control-center 3.20 I'm attaching screenshots. The first is from Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Beta with gnome-control-center 3.20.1. The second is from Debian testing with gnome-control-center 3.21.90. Locale is en_US. The "Region & Language" label is split on two lines like… 3.20: Region & Language 3.21.90: Region & Lan guage Clearly in this particular case, 3.20 was better because it isn't necessary to split a word. But if you are going to split words, please at least add a hyphen when you do it. This is with the default Cantarell 0.0.24 font. I assume there isn't some other package we need installed?
Created attachment 335033 [details] Debian testing with gnome-control-center 3.21.90
*** Bug 771028 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 782276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note: we have worked around this in Endless by removing the soft hyphens from the strings.
Created attachment 357040 [details] [review] region: Don't use soft hyphen Both RHEL 7.4 and Debian 9 "Stretch" ship GNOME 3.22 with this unusual design bug where some words are hyphenated that shouldn't be. By dropping some soft hyphens, we can workaround the big to optimize the 2 most typical cases: regular font size and Large Text Therefore, if accepted, let's backport these changes to at least 3.22 (regression introduced in 3.20) fix "Region & Lan guage" regression in English in the Overview
Created attachment 357041 [details] [review] wacom: Don't use soft hyphen fix regression in English in the Overview with Large Text Oh, I just remembered that this is a String Freeze break. We could work around it by manually editing the po files though.
Are the translator comments ("add soft hyphens") still accurate?
I would still want to add soft hyphens, as translations are considerably longer than the original strings.
This is not an issue anymore with the new, redesigned shell. Even though this old shell is still available, the new shell is the default one and it doesn't wrap labels. Closing as FIXED. Feel free to reopen if needed.