Re: gnome-shell: Freeze break request

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> drago01 wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to ask for a freeze break for
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708472
> > It just increases the width of the menu by 20px to make translated
> > strings fit. It is just a css change so should be pretty safe.
>
> And I hereby approve the next patch adding another 20px because
> another language will need them.  Seriously, +1 for this one but pixel
> layouts do not work well with translated strings and we have various
> issues every cycle, I hope we can give it more attention during design
> and development in next cycle.

This is just a short-term fix for 3.10 - removing the hardcoded width
solves the string length problem, but makes the menu resize in an
unfortunate way when opening and closing submenus.