Hard-coded line breaks (i18n, accessibility)

[Martijn van Iersel]

Binary package hint: hwtest-gtk

The hwtest-gtk app does not scale with the font, if you're using large fonts like I do (14pt for all system fonts) the text does not fit the dialog anymore. The dialog is not resizeable. I'll attach a screenshot.

This is on hardy.

Of course the workaround is to use a smaller system font, but the hardware testing dialog really should adjust itself to the font and not the other way around.

[Walter (walter74)]

See attachment for what the hardware testing app looks like on my system. Looks like the same bug as this one.

[Máté Őry (orymate)]

This is also an i18n issue, developers should never hard-code line breaks. http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Avoid%20hard-coded%20line%20breaks

That's why is Hungarian translation broken too. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-hu-web/+bug/246271/comments/1

[ronny (ronny-standtke)]

I am using Ubuntu with the German locale and have the same problem. The text is not completely visible. Lines are cut off (see attached screenshot). Because the window is not resizeable, the only chance you have is to select all the text and paste it into a text editor.
Not something I would call state-of-the-art GUI design...

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

The problem that ronny described is even more visible using the Catalan locale. See the attached image.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Confirming issue. What the normal solution for this, wrappable text in a scrollable box?

[Abel Deuring (adeuring)]

Wrappable text is of course good, but I think the main window could also be resizable. A larger window might make reading the texts easier or more convenient for large fonts.

[David Murphy (schwuk)]

I would prefer to stay with a fixed size window as it makes it easier to keep the testing experience consistent (although we will try a resizable window), however it should be larger by default.

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

The problem with having a larger default size is that there will always be some language with more text and someone with larger fonts. So, at least enabling these corner cases by making the window resizable would be a good thing.

The problem with making the window resizable is that the application currently uses a fixed size image in the header. This is not something which I've seen in many other applications, probably for a good reason. However, removing the header completely makes the application feel empty.

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

I have pushed a fix which at least makes the window resizable and preserve a decent looking header image. I would appreciate if someone else could confirm this is a reasonable fix and update the status accordingly.

[David Murphy (schwuk)]

It's an interesting fix (i.e. I would have tackled it a different way), but it works as far as resizing is concerned and that's good enough.

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

I have also pushed another fix which also replaces the gtk labels with textviews instead. This makes each text area scrollable so that the application can still provide a usable interface when it is not resized.