879676 - [Keyboard] Layout selection menu popup has a fixed width, making some keyboard labels to break into two lines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 796600

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[Mihai Cirlanaru [:mihai][:mcirlanaru]]

As discussed on the patch for bug 872825, the menu dialog that shows enabled keyboards (i.e. by long pressing the 'globe' key) has a fixed width and labels like the one for 'Serbian (Cyrillic)' -- Српски (ћирилица) breaks into two lines.

Comment 1

[Mihai Cirlanaru [:mihai][:mcirlanaru]]

Since Serbian is one of the target market locales, requesting blocking-b2g:leo.

Comment 2

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Please be informed we have Bug 796600 to tackle, which might address this issue at the same time, I might be able to get to Bug 796600 in one day or two.

Comment 3

[Mihai Cirlanaru [:mihai][:mcirlanaru]]

This would help some UX input:

Since the enabled keyboards menu dialog (that appears when long pressing the 'globe' key) has a fixed width, some labels don't fit and are currently broken into two lines. What should be the desired approach for displaying the keyboard layout labels:

1. make the width of the keyboards menu dialog dynamic, i.e. matching the size of the longest label

2. keep the current width and truncate the long labels with ellipsis (i.e. "Српски (ћирилица)" -> "Српски ..."

3. rename the lengthy labels to fit the current width: for now only "Serbian (Cyrillic)" and "Japanese - Kanji" don't fit, and for Serbian, since the label is written in cyrillic, one suggestion would be to simply drop the info in parentheses 
(i.e. "Српски (ћирилица)" -> "Српски")

If you have any other suggestions, feel free to add them here.

Comment 4

[Mihai Cirlanaru [:mihai][:mcirlanaru]]

(In reply to Rudy Lu [:rudyl] from comment #2)
> Please be informed we have Bug 796600 to tackle, which might address this
> issue at the same time, I might be able to get to Bug 796600 in one day or
> two.

Thanks for pointing this bug, Rudy! I can take care of the current bug by the end of tomorrow and since it doesn't highlight the same issue as bug 796600, I think it's safe to keep them separate for now.

Comment 5

[Stephany Wilkes]

Reassigning to Francis as this is keyboard and leo.

Comment 6

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Wait and see if bug 796600 addresses this issue (it's leo blocker already)

Comment 7

[Francis Djabri [:djabber]]

The solution to bug 796600 should fix this as it allows the text labels to be full width.