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ubuntu-system-settings package

"Display language" label is usually cut off by the current value

Bug #1356640 reported by Leo Arias
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ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

On the language and text page, the first item is Display Language.
It shows on the left that label, and on the right the selected language.
This doesn't fit on the screen as can be seen on the attached screenshot.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguageAndText#Phone-1>

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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks, asking for design input. Matthew, what should we do in this situation? We could ellipsize the language rather than the label, would that be better?

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: language
Leo Arias (elopio)
summary: - Display language label it too big
+ Display language label is too big
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : Re: Display language label is too big

I think there are several glitches here:

1. There is too much space between the icon and "Display". (Even more than between the icon and the edge of the screen!)

2. "English (United States)" would be both shorter, and less overbearing, as "English (US)".

3. Whenever a summary value does not fit in a page stack item, it should not be shown at all. I think that should be handled at the toolkit level, not by this particular item.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks Matthew

So to summarize
- 1. and 3. are toolkit issues
- 2 is a comment about a particular cases, the issue is going to happen on other cases than "US" which can't be reworded the same way

not sure there is anything we can/should change from the settings side...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

setting to incomplete, not sure what we can change here (out of the US special case, but that's not going to resolve the issue)

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

1 & 3 are actually the settings components as this is implemented as a StandardMenu component
Marking that as also affects

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I will do a new wireframe for this, but the solution will be: Use a list item layout where the summary value is on a line by itself, below the label, rather than on the opposite side of the label. This should look okay because the "Display language" item is in a group by itself, not immediately preceded/followed by other items.

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
no longer affects: ubuntu-settings-components (Ubuntu)
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Specification updated: As I suggested above, for this item, the summary value should be below the label rather than to the right.

description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Triaged
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
tags: added: bitesize
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
summary: - Display language label is too big
+ "Display language" label is usually cut off by the current value
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