Bug 150987 - [Progress] Show ellipsis at end, not in middle, for progress messages
Summary: [Progress] Show ellipsis at end, not in middle, for progress messages
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Tod Creasey CLA
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Reported: 2006-07-18 14:25 EDT by Nick Edgar CLA
Modified: 2006-07-31 08:25 EDT (History)
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Description Nick Edgar CLA 2006-07-18 14:25:12 EDT 
3.2 RC5

I'm finding that in most cases, when a progress message gets truncated in the progress indicator, it would have been better to truncate with ellipsis at the end, rather than in the middle.  I believe we switched the truncation in view/editor tabs to truncate at the end for the same reason.

See attached screen shot for an example.  The full message is "Retrieving My Open Work Items".  It got truncated as "Retrieving My Open W...ms".  It would have less confusing as "Retrieving My Open Wor...".
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-07-31 08:25:24 EDT 
We didn't do this because a lot of messages (such as the CVS loading messages) have thier relevant information (the path) at the end.

Changing it now would really mess up those who had tailored thier messages to our current algorithm.