Bug 430599

Summary: Too long german translation for 'Open new project' in Kdevelop
Product: [Developer tools] kdevplatform Reporter: Derek Christ <christ.derek>
Component: generalAssignee: kdevelop-bugs-null
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: mail, schwarzer
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: File dialog too big

Description Derek Christ 2020-12-19 22:35:02 UTC
Created attachment 134218 [details]
File dialog too big

SUMMARY
It's always a bit akward to open a new project in KDevelop because the file picker stretches almost over my entire screen. The phrase "Wählen Sie eine Einrichtungsdatei für ein Build-System, ein vorhandenes KDevelop-Projekt oder einen beliebigen Ordner, der als Projekt geöffnet wird." at the top is way too long in my opinion. This may only apply to the German translation.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set German language
2. Open new project
3. See that file picker is too big

OBSERVED RESULT
The phrase at the top is too long, therefore the dialog is too big.

EXPECTED RESULT
The phrase should be simplified to that the dialog is in a normal size

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20201216
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.9.14-1-default
OS Type: 64-bit

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
See screenshot
Comment 1 Frederik Schwarzer 2020-12-20 01:05:48 UTC
Thanks for the report.

This is not a translation issue.

This could be shortened to "do something" but then it would not be a translation of the original text anymore.

The dialog layout should be fixed so that the length of the string does not "break" it this way. Maybe make it a multi-line text?

Other languages might be even longer so making this an issue of one language does not fix anything.
Comment 2 Frederik Schwarzer 2020-12-20 01:08:31 UTC
Reassigning to the kdev team with request for comments.
Comment 3 Sven Brauch 2020-12-20 01:28:54 UTC
I agree, this looks weird even in English.