628640 - [ar] autoresize in dropdown boxes in not adequate

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect)

Description

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

For Arabic locale, when you choose the longest item in a dropdown list, the ending part of the string selected won't appear. The string is shortened instead and three points are appended (see attached picture). This is weird since it doesn't happen with the English version.

Comment 1

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

Attachment: Snapshot of dropdown lists where strings are shortened

How to reproduce:

Preferences window > Privacy

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

This very much smells like a toolkit or layout bug. Over to toolkit/xul for triage.

Anas, do you know if this is a regression or was that way in 3.6 as well?

Comment 3

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

The bug appeared in an up-to-date local build in linux x64.

I tested both 3.6.13 and 4.0b9 on win32, and they appear clean of this issue.

I don't know about 3.6 on linux, since there is no localized builds of ff3.6 for linux x64.

That means that the cause if this bug is something related to the linux interface (or the x64 build). Of course there is a small chance that something made a mess between 4.0b9 and the latest trunk.

Comment 4

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

This bug valid and has nothing to do with drowsiness :) (the attached snapshot can prove that).

I may say that it is very likely that it is related to the interface (or fonts used). For instance, the default font in windows is narrower than that of Gnome interface on linux. There are also other dropdown lists that suffer from the same issue in the preferences window. And to add insult to injury, this weird behavior doesn't seem consistent (see the following snapshot that illustrates the same window on an earlier version of ff 4.0b8: one dropdown list is allright while the other is not).

Comment 5

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

Attachment: A snapshot of the same window in 4.0b8 showing the last dropdown list allright with same string selected