GSM wizard strings are too long; can't fully show wizard on some resolutions

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

on a Acer aspire one mini pc i was trying to setup a mobile broadband connection but after the first step when i have to

"choose your Providers country or region"

i cannot see the "continue" button because the wizard interface is too large and the "Continua" button is out of screen area to continue i must to drag the wizard window to the left...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: network-manager 0.9.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Sep 17 23:46:56 2011
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.100 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.48
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
NetDevice.eth0:
 Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
 X: INTERFACE_MAC=00:1e:68:bf:d9:22
NetDevice.lo:
 Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
 X: INTERFACE_MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00
NetDevice.usb0:
 Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
 X: INTERFACE_MAC=02:6d:f3:7d:57:6b
NetDevice.wlan0:
 Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
 X: INTERFACE_MAC=00:22:69:28:0a:82
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=false
 WWANEnabled=true
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-16 (1 days ago)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

That's a little tricky, since any number of translations could have wildly different string sizes...

Regardless, it does look like it's a little long on my system as well, even if it fits in the screen nicely. Definitely worth spending a bit of time looking at for 12.10.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Thomas, you've been working hard to triaging bugs so far. Want to try your hand at fixing this? It should be a simple matter of coming up with either a clever way to rewrite the texts, or to use GTK to ellipsize or split to two lines where necessary.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

This needs work, but not something that can be changed this late in the cycle. We're past UI Freeze, and this would require a number of string changes to simplify/shorten the original strings, then re-translating everything.

Unassigning for now, but we should definitely look back into it after 12.10 is released.