I can confirm that 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.1 from -proposed fixed the issue (in Boxes) for me, i.e. the dialog text is now wrapped and hence entirely legible.
** Attachment added: "Fully visible text after installing package from -proposed" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1871868/+attachment/5396556/+files/20200728_163529.jpg ** Tags removed: verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done-focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871868 Title: Shell dialog text is truncated and ellipsized Status in GNOME Shell: Unknown Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-shell source package in Focal: Fix Committed Bug description: [ Impact ] Shell modal dialogs contain text that may be truncated when using certain locales [ Test case ] - Start a virtual machine with GNOME Boxes - The keyboard prompt should be all visible [ Regression potential ] Text isn't properly rendered or the dialog is not all visible in the display ---- When trying to start a virtual machine with Gnome Boxes, I get a prompt about keyboard shortcuts. The prompt text is localized, but translated back to English (I think, based on [1]) it says: Boxes wants to inhibit shortcuts You can restore shortcuts by pressing Super+Escape. In my locale (Finnish), it says Sovellus Boksit haluaa rajoittaa pikanäppäinten toimintaa. Voit palauttaa pikanäppäinten toiminnan painamalla Super... (sic; see attached photo) So the actual key combination is truncated, defeating the point of that part of the text. This isn't a localization error (AFAICT; see [2]). It's caused by the text being forced to fit on a single line of an arbitrarily fixed width, instead of wrapping to span as many lines as needed. (I'm reporting this against gnome-shell as opposed gnome-boxes based on [3]. Feel free to reassign as necessary.) * [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874526#28 * [2] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gnome-shell/+pots/gnome-shell/fi/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=pikan%C3%A4pp%C3%A4inten * [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668036 ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-23.27-generic 5.4.29 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-23-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Apr 9 18:29:14 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-13 (1274 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.0-2ubuntu1SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-05 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1871868/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
