[Bug 851616] Re: Regression - software center some texts messed up (RTL)

[Shlomil]

Seems to me like the placement of the stars is prefect -
for example, if you look at the highlighted selection in the above screenshot you will see that there's a big space from the right to the beginning of the label. If you would align the string to the right then is looks like there's enough room and the stars would not overlap the label.

One more thing I noticed which might be very helpful:
Each cell of a program summary has two lines - The First is the program name and the second is a short description (in smaller font). If the description line (2nd line) is longer than the name line (1st line) then this bug occurs (otherwise it doesn't - the stars don't overlap text).
Note that when it happens, the 1st line is aligned to the end of the 2nd line.
That's probably the cause of this bug - the 1st and 2nd lines are somehow connected and both are aligned to the left of the longest label. Or, maybe you implemented this by using a single multi-line label and for some reason the text is aligned to the left in this single label.

in other cases where the 1st line is the longer one you can see the
stars don't overlap the program name but note that the 2nd line is
aligned to the end of the 1st line which is also looks kind of buggy for
RTL users. You can see example for that in the above screenshot in the
3rd program with the "mms,wavpack, quicktine..." name.

I hope the above observation I made is clear enough. I'm pretty sure
it's what caused this bug.

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Title:
  Regression - software center some texts messed up (RTL)

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is likely a regression of Bug #733087 fixed in Natty.

  Here are a couple of screenshots from the software center, Hebrew
  (RTL) environment:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-
  center/+bug/733087/+attachment/2410719/+files/stars-overlapping-in-
  hebrew.png

  http://www.imagebanana.com/view/p9e8ehcm/usc.png

  As you can see, some texts are not properly right aligned - they seem
  to be a little shifted to the left. When this happens on lines that
  display the stars (ratings), the texts overlap.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.23.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep 16 09:24:48 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SoftwareCenterLog:
   2011-09-16 09:13:58,693 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 15 21
   2011-09-16 09:14:09,263 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
   2011-09-16 09:14:10,651 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.utils - INFO - Softwarecenter style provider for ambiance Gtk theme: /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css/softwarecenter.css
   2011-09-16 09:14:27,566 - softwarecenter.backend - WARNING - could not update axi
   2011-09-16 09:14:30,498 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 1
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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