As every notification, Flow notifications have a primary option, a secondary option and a menu of tertiary options. However, the tertiary option is so long you can't read it completely in German, and other tertiary option cases I checked share this problem.
I think the box should be expanded or at least there should be a mouseover in place, so you can tell what action you are actually triggering right now, as it is a guessing game otherwise.
For example:
| Displayed as | Whole message | Link to source |
|---|---|---|
| Mit dem Beobachten dieses Th… | Mit dem Beobachten dieses Themas aufhören | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EFLW/browse/master/i18n/de.json$21 |
| Mit dem Beobachten neuer Akt… | Mit dem Beobachten neuer Aktivitäten zu $1 aufhören | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EFLW/browse/master/i18n/de.json$24 |
The underlying issue is that English is a language using quite short words in comparison to other languages like German and French.
Would it be possible to translate it a different way to have it shorter? I've tried for French and I can gain a few characters.
I'm asking for that because notifications templates are standard, and that may happen on a different message.
We could replace the phrase "Mit dem […] aufhören" with the phrase "[…] beenden", but this wouldn't be much shorter.
I'm asking for that because notifications templates are standard, and that may happen on a different message.
Isn't this exactly the reason why we should think of a general fix for issues like this?
Our team's designer will think about how to improve this situation, and we will aim to address it in Q3.