New property proposal for StatusNotifierItem protocol: Label

Martin Gräßlin kde at martin-graesslin.com
Tue Aug 10 18:55:22 CEST 2010


On Tuesday 10 August 2010 18:05:30 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> I would say we have much more control now with the SNI protocol. We can
> limit things to sane values. For example the host could decide on a
> maximum width and simply fade out the text if it's too wide.
Please don't do that. It get's completely broken as soon as there are 
translations. I encountered two problems with approaches like only showing 
part of the text:
1. German tends to need three times the space as English
2. The most important piece of information in a German sentence is the last 
word.

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