Bug 24462

Summary:	Better look Xfce #4 : At first sight, texts truncated
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	magnux77 <magnux77>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa, marja11, pkreuzt
Version:	7	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14813 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24812
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Screenshots asked by Marja.

Description magnux77 2019-03-04 17:33:23 CET

Description of problem:

At first logging Xfce, 2nd level items of Whisker Menu are truncated. I think french texts are longer than english ones. This problem does not occur in standard menu "Application Menu".

For the same reason, icons on the desktop have their text more truncated because of the 3 points, they are almost unreadable for some of them.

These 2 very little problems are so easily solved when you are familiar with Mageia that you may think they must not be relevant of bugzilla. But these 2 very little problems may, at first sight, may let new users believe Mageia is not so well-developed.

Suggestion of solution (I do not know if it is possible, just try to contribute)
For Whisker : have column of secund level items twice larger than first one.
For icons on the desktop, have Parameters/Desktop/Icons/"Use custom font size" = true, size = 6.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2019-03-04 20:12:41 CET

Hi Magnux,

Thanks for wanting Mageia to be perfect :-)

Please attach a screenshot of the problem.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2019-03-04 21:42:22 CET

For whisker menu, please, report to upstream. The size could be set automatically. Or there could be option to use auto-size.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2019-03-04 21:44:45 CET

6 for font size is way too small in desktop in some screens. The text is unreadable. So that's not a solution.

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2019-03-05 08:02:37 CET

(In reply to Jani Välimaa from comment #2)
> For whisker menu, please, report to upstream. The size could be set
> automatically. Or there could be option to use auto-size.

Magnus, when you've reported that, then please supply the link here.

Jani, assigning this report to you, because going by your comments you consider it to be about valid XFCE issues.

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM
Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa

Comment 5 magnux77 2019-03-07 17:31:28 CET

Created attachment 10850 [details]
Screenshots asked by Marja.

Icon text font size 10 make make icon text also unreadable. And for lot of screens it looks like the font size should have been reasonably reduced for the text being readable.

The choice of an intermediate size, 8, will reduce the problem but not completely solve it.

To completely solve this problem of unreadable text of icons of the desktop, or at least not well done look, perhaps the solution should be to have no more icons on the desktop. Except icon of "Removable device" to keep it easily under the user's eyes. All directories iconified on the desktop are more easily accessible by the File Manager in the panel than on the desktop where you have generaly to free it previously.

Comment 6 magnux77 2019-03-08 07:52:59 CET

Xcuz Marja. I forgot to mention attachment "Screenshots asked by Marja"

Jani Välimaa 2019-05-05 17:56:46 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14813

Comment 7 Jani Välimaa 2019-05-05 18:01:33 CEST

Added patch to 4.13.3-5.mga7 to disable ellipsizing by default.

Jani Välimaa 2019-05-05 18:01:45 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 8 Jani Välimaa 2019-05-15 06:22:49 CEST

Disabling ellipsizing is causing more issues with long texts than it fixes, so I'm thinking about reverting the change. See bug 24812 and bug 24812 comment 3.

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24812

Comment 9 Pavel Kreuzt 2021-03-12 08:59:37 CET

Reporting here as this issue is clearly related:

Desktop icon labels have no ellipsizing on default XFCE MGA8 install. Long texts often cover contiguous icons. Also some glitches as this text goes foreground/background if images on mouse cursor hover.

Fortunately this is easy to fix creating a file:

~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

with content:

* {
   -XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 1;
}

Maybe some patch left around at build?

CC: (none) => pkreuzt

Comment 10 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-07-06 13:15:03 CEST

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Comment 11 Marja Van Waes 2021-09-07 14:11:03 CEST

Hi bug reporter and hi assignee and others involved,

Please reopen this bug report if it is still valid for Mageia 8 or 9(cauldron), and change "Version:" in the upper left of this report accordingly.

This report is being closed as OLD because it was filed against Mageia 7, for which  support ended on June 30th 2021.

Thanks,
Marja

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED