940616 - [B2G][l10n][Settings] Portuguese: Message settings header is truncated in "Settings"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: pt-BR / Portuguese (Brazil), defect)

Description

[sarsenyev]

Attachment: 2013-11-19-12-06-55.png

Description:
In Brazilian-Portuguese, when entering into "Message settings configuration" the header is truncated

Repro Steps:
1) Updated Burito BuildID: 20131119004006
2) Open "Settings" from the home screen
3) Navigate into "Network & Data"
4) Navigate into "Message settings"
5) Observe the header

Actual:
The header is truncated

Expected:
The header is not truncated and displayed fully

Device: Buri 1.2 COM RIL
BuildID: 20131119004006
Gaia: 9439907a255e04de4c33493fe03d6670c8256e2f
Gecko: fe2a7f0db27b
Version: 26.0
RIL Version: 01.02.00.019.102
Firmware Version: US_20131104

Notes:
Repro frequency: 100%
See attached: screenshot

Comment 1

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

This is a UX issue, the header doesn't give us a lot of room to work with. The original en-US string has exactly the amount of characters that will fit in the header, and "Settings" is already abbreviated in our translation. It's still possible to figure out what the header says, so until we have a better solution for translations that are longer than English, there's nothing I can do about this.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Reuben Morais [:reuben] from comment #1)
> It's still possible to figure out what the header says, so until we have a
> better solution for translations that are longer than English, there's
> nothing I can do about this.

I disagree: from 1.3 all settings have two separate strings for button and header, so you can improve the situation while waiting for a UX solution
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/gaia-l10n/v1_3/pt-BR/file/b13d2e331f56/apps/settings/settings.properties#l325

Example:
messageSettings = Config. de mensagens
messageSettings-header = Mensagens

You've already selected "Messages settings", you can just say "Messages" in the next screen, since it's already clear you're in Settings.

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Note: this comment is valid for most of the bugs you closed as WONTFIX last night. If it's not, and a string is reused between button and header, please let me know.

Comment 4

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #2)
> You've already selected "Messages settings", you can just say "Messages" in
> the next screen, since it's already clear you're in Settings.

I can also just say "Config. de mensa…". My point is that the truncation loses less data than changing this to something else. Same for the other bugs I closed.

Comment 5

[Delphine Lebédel]

I agree with :flod here that the best workaround at the time being would be to do as other locales have done in this case in many areas of Settings: use only one word, in this case "Mensagens"
It looks much better than with a truncation or with an abbreviation, and makes more sense for users.

Comment 6

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

This is not an area of Settings, it's an area of the Messaging app. Using "Mensagens" means there's no difference in the header between the main UI of the app and the settings panel. I'd rather just use "Configurações".

If there's a policy against truncation, developers should be aware of it, and we should be providing ways to handle long text more gracefully than what we do today (nothing).

Comment 7

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

(In reply to Reuben Morais [:reuben] from comment #6)
> This is not an area of Settings, it's an area of the Messaging app.

Oh, my mistake, it looks like you can reach this UI from the Settings /and/ the Messages app.

Comment 8

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

Looks like there's no way to shorten the string without making either the Messages app or the Settings app text more awkward. I suppose I'll favor the Settings app in this case since this panel is more easily reached from there.

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/gaia-l10n/v1_3/pt-BR/rev/9f68ec524fc6