[Freeciv-Dev] Re: new player dialog

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

torsdagen den 23 augusti 2001 14:09 skrev Reinier Post:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:43:42PM +0200, Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:
> > Could you please check if the problem only occurs in the new
> > players report? Because as Raimar described it it seems to be
> > a generell problem of the german translation - and not of the
> > dialog itself.
>
> But the length of strings in translated dialogs is a hard problem.
> How hard would it be to have an option on dialogs to automatically
> shorten the string (replacing the characters in the middle with ...)
> when they grow beyond a maximum size?

The real problem is not that there are a few long strings in some 
localizations. The real problem is that GTK magnifies this a lot by making 
all buttons long. So the solution is not to ... but to teach GTK some manners.