Comment 2 for bug 592470

Actually let me rephrase the post above, because it turned out pretty ambiguous...

The problem with your proposed solution (i.e. adding ellipses) boils down to deciding what is the maximum amount of text that would fit on a button without causing a scrollbar to appear. I don't want this amount to be hard-coded. So, I am only willing to fix this bug if there is some way to figure out the optimal text length (without having to redraw each button several times to find out, of course). For all I know, GTK does not offer much help here.

If anyone has any ideas about the best way to fix this, please post here :)