Bug 88542 - display field for font in standard toolbar is too short
Summary: display field for font in standard toolbar is too short
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.2.7.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Fonts-Name-Combobox
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Reported: 2015-01-17 20:26 UTC by Holger Jakobs
Modified: 2017-11-04 11:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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LibreOffice font selector display in standard toolbar (12.12 KB, image/png)
2015-01-17 20:26 UTC, Holger Jakobs
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Description Holger Jakobs 2015-01-17 20:26:08 UTC
Created attachment 112402 [details]
LibreOffice font selector display in standard toolbar

Problem description: The display field for the font name in the standard toolbar is too short. You cannot tell whether a difference between "Bitstream Vera Sans" and "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", because only "Bitstream Vera S" shows. It's independent of the screen resolution, even on full HD displays the field remains too small.

Steps to reproduce:
1. open LibreOffice writer
2. choose between the two fonts mentioned above
3. can you tell a difference?

Current behavior:
display field is too short

Expected behavior:
display field has to be 50% wider
Comment 1 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-01-17 20:56:48 UTC
TESTING on Ubuntu 14.04 with
LO Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 84c69550bcb8139669de9cf98b51c35f21fe853d
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF, 
Branch:master, 
Time: 2015-01-13_08:44:23
Locale: en_US

(In reply to Holger Jakobs from comment #0)
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. open LibreOffice writer
> 2. choose between the two fonts mentioned above
> 3. can you tell a difference?
> 
> Current behavior:
> display field is too short

The field is definitely too short to display the full names of fonts.

  Example: 'Linux Libertine Display G' gets truncated to
           'Linux Libertine Dis'.

The issue here is what to do with long names? Display the font name smaller? Widen the font field?

This is one for the UX Masters to address:
Component -> ux-advise
Status -> NEW
Comment 2 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-01-17 20:57:03 UTC
Comment on attachment 112402 [details]
LibreOffice font selector display in standard toolbar

fix mimetype
Comment 3 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2016-08-25 04:21:39 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 j_mach_wust 2017-02-12 09:22:04 UTC
This problem has become much more pressing with the 5.3 release. Now OpenType Layout features can be controlled in the *font name* field, e.g. as follows:

Linux Libertine G:smcp=1
Linux Libertine G:pnum=1&onum=1

The font name field should be wider so differences like these can be spotted.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2017-07-27 12:31:35 UTC
We talked about this issue today in the design/UX meeting. The control is well designed for most font names and should be kept small to leave space for other icons. Possible solution of a dynamic tooltip that shows the full font name or introducing a splitter so the user can resize the control are not easy to implement. Since we have a good the workaround with the sidebar where the control resizes this was decided to be a WFM.