930157 - [B2G][1.2][110n][Calendar]Event List display of Contacts' Birthdays a... appears truncated and in English for multiple languages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Montoya Clemmons (MClemmons)]

Description: 

When user accesses the drawers section of Calendar app, the selectable option of Contacts' birthdays a... appears truncated and in English for the languages English, Polish, Catalan, Greek, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovak and German

Repro Steps: 
1) Updated Buri to BuildID: 20131023004005 
2) Tap Calendar App 
3) Tap Drawers in upper left of screen 
4) Add Google calendar to enable the Contacts' birthdays selection

Actual: 
Contacts' birthdays a... appears truncated and in English for multiple languages

Expected: 
Contacts' birthdays a... does not appear truncated and in the language selected by user

Environmental Variables: 
Device: Buri v1.2 COM RIL
BuildID: 20131023004005 
Gaia: 1ca623e7a79a9653b54a45ef7f8bb03b8d7100fc 
Gecko: bb33e2fe109c 
Version: 26.0a2 


Notes: 

Repro frequency: 100% 
See attached: screenshot
Additional Information: So far, I have noticed this actual behavior on the following languages: Polish, Catalan, Greek, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovak, German, and English

Comment 1

[Montoya Clemmons (MClemmons)]

Attachment: Truncation & English Issue with Localization

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Is there something we can do on the UX side here?

TBH, in particular the calendar that's just that one long email address is gonna be tough.

I meant to share this in a more constructive way, we doodled around possible string shorteners a while back, you can see our results on http://htmlpad.org/spacing/

Comment 3

[Stephany Wilkes]

I don't mean to sound flip, but can we just use "Birthdays"?

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I don't think this is our string, but a name of a remote calendar.

Comment 5

[Stephany Wilkes]

Ah, understood. Flagging Eric since we don't control the string (boo). :)

Comment 6

[Eric Pang [:epang] UX]

(In reply to Stephany Wilkes from comment #5)
> Ah, understood. Flagging Eric since we don't control the string (boo). :)

I think it's going to be tough to always fit all the text.  Email addresses tend to be long and unpredictable.  In my opinion I think it would be great if we can give the user the ability to rename their calendars in the settings.  This way the user have the option to shorten the strings on their on. Rob, would this be a possibility?

Comment 7

[Francis Djabri [:djabber]]

Sounds like a good idea to allow users to rename their calendars, or at least to be able to provide short names/aliases for their different calendars to avoid sync issues. Flagging Adam to fit this into the backlog.

Comment 8

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Clearing l12y keyword (not a localizability bug).

Comment 9

[Adam Rogers (:arog)]

Will add a feature to the backlog for the renaming of calendars.

Comment 10

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on