Shell dialog text is truncated and ellipsized
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Shell |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[ Impact ]
Shell modal dialogs contain text that may be truncated when using certain locales
[ Test case ]
- Start a virtual machine with GNOME Boxes
- The keyboard prompt should be all visible
[ Regression potential ]
Text isn't properly rendered or the dialog is not all visible in the display
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When trying to start a virtual machine with Gnome Boxes, I get a prompt about keyboard shortcuts. The prompt text is localized, but translated back to English (I think, based on [1]) it says:
Boxes wants to inhibit shortcuts
You can restore shortcuts by pressing Super+Escape.
In my locale (Finnish), it says
Sovellus Boksit haluaa rajoittaa pikanäppäinten toimintaa.
Voit palauttaa pikanäppäinten toiminnan painamalla Super...
(sic; see attached photo)
So the actual key combination is truncated, defeating the point of that part of the text.
This isn't a localization error (AFAICT; see [2]). It's caused by the text being forced to fit on a single line of an arbitrarily fixed width, instead of wrapping to span as many lines as needed.
(I'm reporting this against gnome-shell as opposed gnome-boxes based on [3]. Feel free to reassign as necessary.)
* [1] https:/
* [2] https:/
* [3] https:/
ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 9 18:29:14 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-13 (1274 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageV
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-05 (4 days ago)
summary: |
- Keyboard shortcut restoring shortcut cut short when localized + Shell dialog text is truncated and ellipsized |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
tags: | added: fixed-in-3.37.3 fixed-upstream |
tags: | added: groovy |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Focal): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → In Progress |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Oh and I'm using Wayland, in case it matters here. Haven't yet tried whether Xorg is similarly affected.