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Instead of making the window wider (or the rightmost button smaller) to accommodate the string, an ellipsis was added.


I have shortened the string of the Mod Settings button as a temporary solution, but this isn't a good permanent solution imho.

Might be another thing to toss into testing; check if any text is ellipsized in any locale.

Thanks for the report however I believe this is working as intended. The GUIs are all designed around English and it being able to fit in the GUI. If something doesn't fit in another language it's truncated (as you see) otherwise it's up to the translators to make it fit.

@Rseding91 - Thank you for your comment, but respectfully, how can you dismiss this issue so easily? I think there's a conclusion to be drawn from this example for the GUI review process.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 4:35 amthis is working as intended

Then it's a "bug" in the intention. Perhap's I'm in a minority opinion here, but to me it doen't make any sense from a UI/UX standpoint to give the green button huge amounts of needless padding, while another button is squeezed to the point of unreadability.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 4:35 amit's up to the translators to make it fit.

Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of inventing new words my language (that is, as long as I want to be understood). Am I supposed to start using abbreviations? Keep non-fitting strings untranslated?

Moreover, how are we translators supposed to find all these "underwater rocks"? At the moment, the only way of knowing that there even is an issue is to wait until the locales are pulled during a new build, and then find out that something is too long. I have a suggestion - how about you guys add some annotation to the strings which are limited in width so that we at least know when to be extra concise?

I'm not the one who decided this many months ago. You'll have to talk to memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=488 the lead graphics guy.

Dev-iL wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:16 pm Instead of making the window wider (or the rightmost button smaller) to accommodate the string, an ellipsis was added.


I have shortened the string of the Mod Settings button as a temporary solution, but this isn't a good permanent solution imho.

This ellipsis is a general resource for texts. But it shouldn't happen in a button if we can avoid it. In this case, we can avoid it, so we are fixing it.
Thanks for the report.

Increased the maximum size of the preview button to give some extra space for different languages.