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Bug 72191

Summary:

[Wizards] Description in New wizard is truncated for some locales

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Paul Slauenwhite <paulslau>

Component:

Assignee:

Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>

Status:

CLOSED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Prakash Rangaraj <prakash>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

n.a.edgar

Version:

3.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Screen shot showing truncation of description in German	none
Screen shot showing the wizard widened to fit the full description	none
Screen shot showing that widening can make other pages appear disproportionate	none

Description Paul Slauenwhite

2004-08-18 13:51:32 EDT

Description in example wizard is truncated for some locales.

The description text for some NL-enabled examples does not display totally 
unless the user resizes the window. 

Consider enlarging the example wizard's dialog.

Comment 1 Paul Slauenwhite

2004-08-18 13:52:29 EDT

Please see defect #72184 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=72184) 
for the corresponding defect targeted for 3.0.2.

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2004-09-27 10:52:27 EDT

This is by design - we try not to make the description drive the window size. 
If it is too large then we truncate. Please log a problem report to the releng 
team to fix any specific translations.

Comment 3 Paul Slauenwhite

2004-09-27 10:53:54 EDT

Closing.

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2009-02-03 11:56:03 EST

IBM TVT testers often flag this truncation of wizard page descriptions as a mustfix defect.  In some cases, we've had to put hackoid workarounds in to resize the wizard so the full description is shown (e.g. see https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/68731)

Part of the problem is that there is no indication that the text has been truncated.  While the user can resize the dialog if needed, they may not be aware that some of the text has been cut off, e.g. if it clips at the end of a phrase or sentence.  If we don't want the description to drive the size of the wizard, then it should at least indicate that there is more text available, e.g. show a "...".  

Setting the tooltip for the label in this case would be an option too.

Comment 5 Nick Edgar

2009-02-03 12:03:10 EST

Created attachment 124567 [details]
Screen shot showing truncation of description in German

The attached screen shots show an example.  Here the truncation was on a sentence boundary, so it was not obvious that there was more text that was hidden.

The second screen shot shows that the wizard needs to be resized 35% wider for the full translation to show (it's not uncommon for German translations to take ~30% more space).  Making the wizard this much wider can make the layout seem disproportionate, however, particularly if other pages have shorter descriptions (as is common).  

This does support the original decision to not size the wizard or description are larger, but there should still be some indication that more text is available (to hint at resizing), and possibly a tooltip too.  Another option would be to use a scrollbar, or down arrow, but this should only be shown if needed, to keep the description area as clean as possible.

Comment 6 Nick Edgar

2009-02-03 12:04:42 EST

Created attachment 124568 [details]
Screen shot showing the wizard widened to fit the full description

Comment 7 Nick Edgar

2009-02-03 12:05:09 EST

Created attachment 124569 [details]
Screen shot showing that widening can make other pages appear disproportionate

Comment 8 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-26 16:20:46 EST

Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [Wizards] component area.

Comment 9 Prakash Rangaraj

2010-06-01 02:33:26 EDT

The message area in the TitleAreaDialog is handled by Bug# 16552. Its now fixed in 3.6

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16552 ***