698191 - Bookmarks property dialog is too narrow to display a meaningful tooltip in several languages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1477250

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Attachment: Tooltip cut on Italian build

Before trying to fit my localization into this tiny space, I'd like to know if there's room to fix this problem on the code side, for example adding a "localizable" width for this dialog.

To be honest I've never realized this issue before because, being the Tags field focused when you open the dialog, this tooltip is usually hidden.

From a quick analysis, the tooltip seems to display about 32 characters on Mac (probably 1 more on Windows), which means that 15/16 locales are affected and some more are on the edge.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Yes, it can be made localizable.
There is a small issue with the fact it expands to another fixed width value when opening the folder selector, that would likely be unpredictable with a localized default width. But could likely be fixed by using a percentage value (I suppose).
This should not interfere with the fix for bug 418864, since even there we need a min-width.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Note: still is still happening on current builds (31.0).

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This still seems to be happening for Italian, however could the L10n min-width added in bug 1470394 / bug 1477250 be enough to fix this now?

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Yes, I think we should close this bug. I'll need to test and find a good width for most OSes.

Should we dupe against bug 1477250?

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Yeah, lets go for a dupe, thanks.