Bug 8955 – Long application names (labels) in the menu are cut at the end

Bug 8955 - (int-134021) Long application names (labels) in the menu are cut at the end

(int-134021)
Summary:	Long application names (labels) in the menu are cut at the end

Status:	NEW

Product:	Desktop platform
Component:	Application Menu
Version:	5.0/(2.2009.51-1)
Platform:	All Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal with 7 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	task-navigator-bugs

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Depends on:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree

Reported:	2010-02-09 22:23 UTC by Andrew Flegg
Modified:	2010-08-30 16:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Andrew Flegg (reporter) maemo.org

2010-02-09 22:23:33 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
2.2009.51-1

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
1. Any of:
1a) Install GPE File Manager from Extras-testing
1b) Install Catorise from Extras, with your device in an English locale
1c) Have a .desktop where the Name is "Hello world from my cool app"
2. Open the application menu

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
That the long names "GPE File Manager", "Location & Navigation" and "Hello
world from my cool app" are wrapped.

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
Labels are truncated.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
always


User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7)
Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7

Comment 1 Andrew Flegg (reporter) maemo.org

2010-02-09 22:26:46 UTC

Created an attachment (id=2253) [details]
Screenshot showing lack of menu wrapping

The problem can be seen on the Catorise screenshot here:

  http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/catorise/

...and on the attached screenshot with "GPE File Manager" and "Countdown Timer"
both being truncated.

Comment 2 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-02-09 22:47:51 UTC

Apps should probably have a shorter name in that case and a bug report - as bug
5570.

There is an internal open report that the last characters should be faded out,
linking against it in the Alias field.
Wrapping itself will not happen though - that part is WONTFIX.

Comment 3 Andrew Flegg (reporter) maemo.org

2010-02-09 23:44:08 UTC

Bah, WONTFIX. I look forward to the Developer Guide being updated informing
developers that, contrary to the freedesktop.org standard, there is a maximum
length of around 12 characters for the "Name".

This goes to show that developing fancy widgets on top of a low-level animation
framework like Clutter may seem shiny, but it causes development overhead,
maintenance burden and lots of edge-case bugs.

Comment 4 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-02-28 23:00:32 UTC

*** Bug 9299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-08-30 16:33:42 UTC

FYI, http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6010 might be the corresponding
ticket in MeeGo.