Button label should ellipsize in the middle
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu UX |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Cris Dywan |
Bug Description
As per the Buttons spec
"In the unlikely event that a button’s label is too long for the width available, it should be ellipsized in the middle"
Currently the Label in ButtonForeground ellipsizes in the end.
Also quoting Matthew on the reasoning:
(1 Two buttons with long but similar labels are more likely to differ at their ends than their middles (e.g. “Change This Event Only” vs. “Change This And Future Events”).
(2 End ellipsis is already used to mean “you’ll need to do something else after tapping this”.
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Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Christian Dywan (kalikiana) |
Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
I only realize this now as I didn't investigate that much in the context of the original discussion: we never elide in the middle ATM - before changing this I think we need to be certain that other cases shouldn't be changed, or that this should be changed in the spec, since it would seem rather strange to have only a single case of middle ellipsis.