794004 - The spaces between the icons of the home page are not the same

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Vincent Valentin]

Attachment: Spaces between the icons

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Build ID: 20120905151427

Steps to reproduce:

Go to about:home.


Actual results:

At the bottom of the page, icons are separated by spaces that are not of equal widths. The display seems a bit unbalanced.


Expected results:

Titles should perhaps have identical sizes ?

Comment 1

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

I believe this is due to the French translation that is longer than 74px.

Comment 2

[u279076]

Can you please confirm if this happens with the latest en-US Nightly from nightly.mozilla.org? CCing Asa, the product manager for about:home. Asa have you seen an issue like this before?

Comment 3

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

Yup confirmed on today's French nightly.

Comment 4

[u279076]

And what about the en-US build?

Comment 5

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

It's not showing this. That's because "Downloads" is shorter than "Téléchargements".

Comment 6

[u279076]

I see, Asa can you give your feedback on this bug?

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The buttons adapt to the text, that's the way we handled the l10n issue, making them same size there's concrete risk to overflow the page with some locale.

Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think it's a minor aesthetic issue and fixing it is non trivial, with risk of worse regression, my take on it is wontfix, but leaving the decision to Asa.

Comment 9

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

Can't we have all buttons get the size of the largest button?

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

(In reply to Anthony Ricaud (:rik) [out between Sept 27 and Oct 1] from comment #9)
> Can't we have all buttons get the size of the largest button?

Though I think we could adjust this a couple of ways, there are far higher priority issues and so I wouldn't have us devote any of our regular core resources to this problem any time soon.