Subject: debian-installer: new way of displaying information Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n
*** Please type your report below this line *** -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Hello, As can be seen on [1], it can happen that translated strings do not fit into installer window. Currently there is no way that i could figure out to show the entire string. This is a problem since users of specific languages may not be able to know exactly what an option does. Although this is shown only on this screen, I figure it can also happen in some other places. I'd like to suggest that thought is put into this issue trying to find a universal solution for this problem. My suggestion would be to make the information part extensible. I can think of two ways for doing this: * list the options and only show information (on some other pane or whatever) on the selected entry. This would make people have to go through the options to know what they are, but at least they would know what they are. * have some way of scrolling the text that doesnt fit. When selected, an option's text could scroll so that it shows the hidden text. I'm submitting this wishlist because even if we can shrink the text to fit the screen (in this particular case, we could find a way to do it), in some languages and/or situations this can be crippling for the translation. If we really want an international Debian, we should take care of all such issues. I think this request only applies to the newt interface (even though i havent, yet, tested how it shows on the gtk one). Best Regards, Ricardo Silva [1] http://www.debianpt.org/~ardoric/opcoes-reiserfs.png -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
