Heading text is not internationalization-friendly

[David Planella]

Have a look at the header in the screenshot, with Software Center having been run with a Catalan locale.

It seems that the width of the "Our star apps" text in the header of Software Center is limited to the width of the actual text in English, making any longer strings "overflow" and be written over the tagline.

It would be great to either not limit the width (or limit it to a greater value), or let the header grow vertically to allow 2 lines in the heading. If that's not possible, at least a translator comment in the string specifying the max. width would be really useful as a temporary workaround.

In any case, I expect this to affect many languages, as translations cannot often be as short as the original English strings.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 6 09:21:48 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ca_ES:en
 LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=ca_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-06 (29 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

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 #867821, 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.

[David Planella (dpm)]

I'm attaching a screenshot of what it looks like in Hungarian. The effect is different, but I'm adding in case it's part of the same bug

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks David! This should be fixed in the current version in oneiric. I attach a screenshot of the ca version.

I'm not quite sure I see the issue with the "hu" screenshot, could you help me?

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

Michael: the Hungarian screenshot shows the untranslated category names on the left and under the suggested applications, that is filed as bug #868963. Also the untranslated More button on the right, which is bug #868952. But the heading is OK, there is nothing to do with that.