Button size problem on the address book window #1062

On Ubuntu 10.04 (with GNOME 2.30) when you click Receive coins > Sign Message > and then the button to open the address book, the buttons at the bottom of the window clearly do not have enough place for the strings. Just take a look at the screenshot (don't worry, the dumb highlighting is mine, but the problem also occurs in English). Bitcoin version: 0.6.0.

Can this be solved somehow by shortening the translated strings or is french a language of natively long strings :)?

On 22/06/12 17:29, Philip Kaufmann wrote:

Can this be solved somehow by shortening the translated strings or is french a language of natively long strings :)?

Yes, French sentences are in average longer than... well, most other languages, which makes them good candidates as placeholders (and for headaches when one translates Android apps).

I could shorten the translated strings a bit but they would look kind of weird (the equivalent of Show QR Code would become just QR Code, "Nouvelle Adresse" would become "Nouv. Adresse"). That said, note that in version 0.6.3, the problem also occurs with English sentences, so IMHO the best way to fix the issue is to modify the geometry of the window (i.e. increase its width).

Interestingly, I grabbed the tarball of revision 5fa8396 from github and compiled it, and then I was surprised to see that the issue seemed to have been fixed... until I realized I hadn't enabled QR Code support with qmake. In short, with one less button, things look much better so increasing the width of the window should do the trick.

PS: As described on #1064 a very similar problem also occurs with the splash screen image. A slightly bigger image appended to the bug report fixes the problem, so you may want to commit it until the splash screen is disabled entirely (rev 5fa8396 still has it).

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Is this only present for the address selection window and splash screen or are there other examples that would need a little resize?

On 30/06/12 00:12, Philip Kaufmann wrote:

Is this only present for the address selection window and splash screen or are there other examples that would need a little resize?

IIRC I noticed nothing else with a similar problem when I was clicking frantically on every option Bitcoin has in order to test the French and Turkish translations; otherwise I believe I would have reported them too. I couldn't find anything else with a quick test now either :)

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.--Edward Abbey

Are you able to compile Bitcoin-Qt? Can you try this with 720 x 360 Pixel (edit addressbookpage.ui with Qt Designer and set the values on the main QWidget).

On 30/06/12 15:41, Philip Kaufmann wrote:

Are you able to compile Bitcoin-Qt? Can you try this with 720 x 360 Pixel (edit addressbookpage.ui with Qt Designer and set the values on the main QWidget).

As we discussed on IRC, 760 x 380 seems to fix this issue. The result on my desktop is the following:

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.--Edward Abbey