898731 - [B2G] [UX] Implement horizontal scrolling for long strings of text

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[Niko Višnjić]

Judging from other meta bugs similar to this one (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=892075), there are several strings that are too long to fit in their allocated line space.
The issue is extremely common when localizing easily shortened English expressions to different locales, where the equivalent can't be shortened or it looks horrible.
For example, English to Croatian: Data Network Menu -> Postavke podatkovne mreže (Postavke podatk. mreže), happens in a lot of other locales as well.


Proposed systematic solution:
- Implement string auto-scrolling on static strings in menu titles and entries and where needed


It solves a lot of headaches and is probably useful locale wide (even in en-US). 
Need feedback from UX/Engineering on this one.

Comment 1

[Stephany Wilkes]

Flagging Eric to advise on this approach. Eric can rope in Patryk, Przemek et al. as necessary.

Comment 2

[Eric Pang [:epang] UX]

(In reply to Stephany Wilkes from comment #1)
> Flagging Eric to advise on this approach. Eric can rope in Patryk, Przemek
> et al. as necessary.

I've spoken with Przemek and Patryk about using horizontal scrolling.  We don't feel it's the appropriate solutions.  We're hoping to solve bugs with these issues by first checking if the string is optimize and if it is then looking at a redesign. Thanks!

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on