412202 - Long text strings in reminder should use line breaks and not scroll horizontally

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Alarms, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Long text strings in reminder should use line breaks and not scroll horizontally. At the moment, long event titles are shown in one line and the window has a horizontal scroll bar. This should generally be performed for strings used in the reminder, if possible.

Comment 1

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Confirmed using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13pre)
Gecko/20080212 Lightning/0.8pre (2008021219) Thunderbird/2.0.0.13pre.

Christian, how should we handle events with long titles in the alarm dialog?

Comment 2

[Felix Möller]

Sadly no screenshot attached I think this is now covered in bug #570124

Comment 3

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

Attachment: Horizontal scrolling

This doesn't seem to be covered by #570124, still broken with source from 11th July.

Comment 4

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

Attachment: Possible solutions

Both making cropping work again and wrapping to multiple lines would fix this bug. Which one is wanted though?

Comment 5

[Felix Möller]

Hi Merike, thanks for the screenshots, now the problem should be clear. The issue I mentioned in comment #2 has nothing to do with this at all.

I really like the second idea, that looks great. In addition I sometimes have events which have their difference just in the last letters ...

Comment 7

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

Attachment: bug412202_wrap

How about after all these years we actually fix this bug :)
Going for the second option here where title and location wrap to multiple lines when necessary.

Comment 8

[[:MakeMyDay]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/848a5a66fd87