Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 67858
nautilus desktop icons' text partly off screen
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:50 EDT
Description of Problem: The start of the text labels of the desktop icons is displayed off screen when in a Japanese locale. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.0.0-6 How Reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. login into gnome session in Japanese locale 2. look at the desktop icon text Actual Results: The first letter of the "user's home" and the "start from here" is off screen. Expected Results: The entire text should be on the screen. Additional Information: This is in 1152x864 if it matters.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88188
Not specific to Japanese, and happens in nautilus 2.0.3 still. Nautilus source code looks like it should handle this. May be related to "nautilus icons come up in a big pile" bug. Should check whether it happens with a nautilus using core X fonts.
Startup screen in ja_JP locale also has the message text positioned below the half-way line.
Splash screen problem is also not CJK-specific, happens in all locales.
It looks like nautilus just looks at max-width when considering icon text width. I think this is due to the change in wrapping. Nautilus used to wordwrap, but if that wasn't possible, use character wrapping to never extend past min_width. I'm not sure how to get this behaviour back with pango.
As a hack maybe we could just crank up the max width for now?
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81906 for a request for the relevant Pango enhancement (definitely not going to happen for Milan or pango-1.2 though.)
In nautilus 2.0.5-2 I'm putting in a lame hack to just pad the left margin and make this happen less often. We can increase the margin a bit if desired. Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91547
Looks much better now, thanks. (The end of "home" in Japanese is getting split across a line now, so if the default wide could be increased a bit more it would be even nicer, though not such a big deal.)