621791 - Word Wrap on PopUp reminder; Title and Date/Time; tasks; events

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[john]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 1.0b2

On the reminders, the popup dialog comes up as a default size.

For me, often the first or second line is bigger than the programmers expected.  

The first line contains the main title/heading for Tasks & Events, and the second line contains the date/time.

Instead of wrapping, they both extend out to the right, forcing part of the line  [in the default popup] to be non-visible at first glance.  This also places the snooze button for that event/task off to the right.   All are accesible with the horizontal scroll that appears.

This formatting with longer titles, and also with date/times that schedule over multiple days making a long date/time line.

The formatting, now in place, removes the ability to quick read the reminder, and to quickly handle it with single mouse movement/clicks, as the manipulating the horizontal scroll is necessary, first.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
The title line and the date/time line in reminders should have a default wrap, as part of the field definition, rather than as wide as the window allows.   This way, the entire content is visible, and the snooze button is immediately accessible when the item pops up.



I assume this minor change to the two fields will extend the height of the parent event/task bar in the reminder window, pushing following events/tasks further down as necessary.

If plausible, I would suggest set the field to have a hanging indent, too.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

TCW can you reproduce this on windows with beta?

Comment 2

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Attachment: event-popup.png

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #1)

TCW can you reproduce this on windows with beta?

Hmm, the STR are not super clear to me to be honest. Is the OP basically saying that when a reminder window pops up that the text wrapping is cutting of rather than, as is currently, elliptical but should be wrapping and that the default window popup size is at fault of it cutting of or not properly wrapping?

In the image example I attached, it doesn't seem we're wrapping but just adding ellipses to indicate that any long subject lines have been extended rather than wrapped so the popup reminder window can be a reasonable size. Date seems unaffected by window size and / or wrapping.

If I'm not understanding the OP correctly, ping me back.

Comment 3

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

No reply from OP. Close as WFM?