Bug#983542: gnome-session-flashback: Wastebaske/t icon - label is linewrapped

[Philip Hands]

Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org> writes:

> Hi again Philip!
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 08:33:04PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>> Thank you both for your suggestions. I have just filed a bug upstream about
>> this [1], but after doing that I discovered an old closed issue about the
>> same thing, and the response was not very positive [2].
>>
>> [1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Translation/en_GB/-/issues/9
>> [2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Translation/en_GB/-/issues/3#note_582937
>
> Upstream discussions showed that the label is unlikely to be changed, and
> the same problem may affect other locales.

Zander suggested that turning on hyphenation might be some sort of fix:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/-/issues/73#note_1046666

and that it should be reported against flashback/pango.

Is that something to mirror here in the BTW, by also reassigning the bug?

(note: I've no idea what 'pango' actually is, so don't know if that
makes any sense)

> Can you please check what is the minimum value of extra-text-width setting
> with which it looks fine for you?
>
> You can set it like this:
>
>   gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-flashback.desktop.icons extra-text-width 48

I don't actually have this stuff installed locally -- the image I linked
to was generated during an OpenQA test install of Debian Installer.

> 48 is the default value, please try increasing it and tell me when it becomes
> good.

I can of course do that change in the KVM instance that runs that test,
but it is on a relatively small virtual display being simulated in KVM,
so I'm not certain whether doing so gives one a reliable indication of
what will appear on ordinary users screens. It seems wrong to use that
as the thing that decides what the setting should be set to.

> For me the minimum good value is 68, but initially I got “Wastebas/ket” and
> not “Wastebaske/t”. Probably it depends on font size.

Cheers, Phil.
-- 
|)|  Philip Hands  [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]  HANDS.COM Ltd.
|-|  http://www.hands.com/    http://ftp.uk.debian.org/
|(|  Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34,   21075 Hamburg,    GERMANY
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 832 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/attachments/20210304/2394e707/attachment.sig>