1499109 - Wrap extension name instead of truncating

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect, P2)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

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There is no valid reason to truncate the label.

Comment 1

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

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I have 17 add-ons and none of them truncate so this seems like a bit of an outlier, however wrapping is probably nicer.

What do you think Emanuela?

Comment 2

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

I discussed this with Emanuela and it would be better if the extension had a shorter name. She's checking with some other UXers if we're better off truncating in hopes of the extension shortening its name or wrapping to make it look a little better with long names.

Comment 3

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

Attachment: Bug 1499109 - Wrap extension name in about:addons r?jaws

Comment 4

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

Confirmed with Emanuela that wrapping is our best bet here.

Comment 5

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

(In reply to Mark Striemer [:mstriemer] from comment #2)
> I discussed this with Emanuela and it would be better if the extension had a
> shorter name. She's checking with some other UXers if we're better off
> truncating in hopes of the extension shortening its name or wrapping to make
> it look a little better with long names.

I'd also like to add that some languages will have longer names due to language constructs. So asking of "shorter names" isn't that friendly.

Comment 6

[emanuela [ux]]

(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (Regression Engineering Owner for 65) (please needinfo? me) from comment #5)
> (In reply to Mark Striemer [:mstriemer] from comment #2)
> > I discussed this with Emanuela and it would be better if the extension had a
> > shorter name. She's checking with some other UXers if we're better off
> > truncating in hopes of the extension shortening its name or wrapping to make
> > it look a little better with long names.
> 
> I'd also like to add that some languages will have longer names due to
> language constructs. So asking of "shorter names" isn't that friendly.

There is a bigger effort here. We're working on new content guidelines and the extensions and theme manager will change even more in the future... We just needed to figure out what we're doing in this transition time :) 

As someone who doesn't speak English as first language I assure you that I'll be really mindful about other languages limitation.

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/54315f38f905
Wrap extension name in about:addons r=jaws

Comment 8

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/54315f38f905

Comment 9

[CosminB]

Attachment: Bug1499109.png

I was able to reproduce this issue on Firefox 62.0.3(20181001155545) under Win 7 64-bit and  Mac OS X 10.13.3.

This issue is verified as fixed on Firefox 65.0a1(20181022220734) and Firefox 64.0b3 (20181022150107) under Win 7 64-bit and Mac OS X 10.13.3.

Please see the attached screenshot.