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Application cards truncate names without indication. #15

Closed XV-02 closed 5 months ago

XV-02 commented 5 months ago

While truncating long application names is inevitable, I wonder if truncated names should have some kind of indicator like an ellipses to signal that it isn't the full name.

For one thing, I'm uncertain how this would interact with non-alphabetic languages, or even with languages with ligatures which are context dependent. But the inverse is that it is possible for things like version differences - Imagine that Program With-Long-Name Version 1 and Program With-Long-Name Version 2 both truncate to Program With-Long-Name - to become muddled.

For example, in this screen shot, GIMP's name is truncated: screenshot-2024-03-13-19-23-30_inset

I don't know the correct course here, but did wish to raise the issue.

jackpot51 commented 5 months ago

This is a general libcosmic/iced/cosmic-text issue, we need to support ellipsize at the lower level and it will improve things in the store and files where we have strict sizing.

XV-02 commented 5 months ago

That makes sense. Should I open an issue in cosmic-text for posterity?

jackpot51 commented 5 months ago

Nah, it is a known issue.