Gnome shell 'Show Applications' app names commonly truncated
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The way people browse their apps and is key to discoverability for new Linux users. Despite the grid layout including quite a lot of space, whenever apps have more than about 12-13 characters in their name they get truncated and even when you hover over the icons it still doesn't display the names of the apps. Therefore you are left not knowing what the app is unless you know the icon or launch the app to discover the full name. This is surprising common. A few examples:
Firefox Web Br...
LibreOffice Imp...
LibreOffice Wri...
Language Supp...
Document Sca...
Document Vie...
Passwords and ...
Visual Studio C...
Software & Up...
While we know or can guess what most of them are, there's loads of space so why can't we give two lines for app names so all reasonably named apps have their names displayed in full?
| Paul White (paulw2u) wrote | #1 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 968213, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.
Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.