Gordon,

On my brand new Boom the menu name "Server Power Control" doesn't fit
the screen in the "Standard Narrow" default font. You get to read
"Server Power Co" and then it scrolls. 
This is not only a cosmetic problem, I believe all this scrolling
defeats menu bouncing, and often message display.

This scenario works perfectly on my SB Classic using the default font
size:
1 Menu: "Server Power Control"
1 Action: right arrow
2 Menu: "Shutdown Server"
2 Action: right arrow
3 Bounce to Menu "Server Power Control"
4 Short wait
5 Message: "Shutdown is unavailable. Cata blah, blah" (1st sentence
fully legible, plus some extra text.)
6 Message starts scrolling for some time.
7 Back to step 1.

On my Boom, using the standard font, I have succeeded displaying the
same text exactly twice out of 10 tries or more. 
The rest of the time, only the plugin name is scrolling after selecting
a blocked action such as "Shutdown Server". 
When scrolling, the movement is jerky, it looks like the display is
struggling (timeouts ?) 
=> A Boom user may feel the plugin is simply not working.

When normally proceeding to perform the action (no blocker set) the
text displays better.

When using the "Light Narrow" font on the Boom, everything works as
expected. However, this font is a bit small, I doubt a majority of Boom
users will select it. 

Every time the Boom failed to display the message I double-checked with
my SB Classic standing next to it, and the blocker message was
displayed.

Also, could the message explaining the plugin is disabled be shorter ?
Here is a full message I display (machine hostname is 'cata'), for
example:
"Shutdown is unavailable. Cata is requesting that the server stay
running because of system keepalive." 
I tried adding as few words as possible, the message doesn't make a lot
of sense, but it scrolls already on the SB, an twice as much on the Boom
with the factory default font.

I think this is clear. You need a Boom ;-)


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