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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Oct 27
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Pri: 3
Type: Bug

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issue 589630



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Which text should wrap and which should elide

Project Member Reported by dschuyler@chromium.org, Jun 13 2016

Issue description

Hi Alan,

This bug is to ask which text in the MD settings
should wrap around and which text should elide
(with ellipses) if it is too long.

Here's a thought, in case you'd like to say "yeah,
that":
 - if the user has a way to get the full text, it
   may elide. E.g. the startup urls (may be edited
   to see the full url), and the downloads default 
   directory may also be edited to get the full path.
 - if there is no reasonable way for the user to
   see the full string (such as text for a checkbox)
   then the text should wrap.

So generally, text that is entered by the user
will be text that can be edited/changed and is also
more likely to be too long to fit. Since the user 
has a way to get the full string, it may be elided.

Conversely, text that is part of the UI, that the
user didn't create or edit is likely to fit without
elision (we'd make it shorter) or would wrap in a
way that we chose (it's our text) and should not
normally elide. (If it did elide the user would 
have no reasonable way to read the whole line
of text).

WDYT?

Are there exceptions where you'd like to have
user entered settings wrap rather than elide?

 
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Labels: Hotlist-MD-Settings-General
Owner: ----
Status: Untriaged (was: Assigned)
Clearing my ownership of P3 UI>Settings bugs. Feel free to re-assign once triaging is complete. 
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Closing this due to inactivity.

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