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Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200805221203) Java: 1.6.0_06; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 10.0-b22 System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; MS932; ja_JP font size 16 1. Install the plugin 2. Open Tools -> Options from main menu Axis2 tab has label. Options dialog doesn't resize to show it properly. Mbyte character looks truncated. Assumption is that user does not need to manually resize most windows or dialogs to see all of the UI objects and information in them. I'm running in pseudo localized locale in which each message/label is sometimes longer than in English. To account for that in some locales, translations from English (and some other euro languages) could be shown with longer strings. Also I'm running at font size 16, which is viewed as a valid font size that might be used. Resizing issues are not just related to i18n; they might show to user in English locale if they run at larger font size. Often, these issues happen because the length of some label or message or size of entire window is hardcoded vs using layout managers or other techniques or api to have the windows or the objects in them, dynamically resize. Sometimes, embedding components in a scroll pane will solve the problem.
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> Axis2 tab has label. > Options dialog doesn't resize to show it properly. Mbyte character looks truncated. => looks like core/options is the right place for this I guess.
Ondro, is it suitable to add a scroll pane under icons panel in the options dialog?
Generally recommended solution for NetBeans is to embed the whole dialog into a scrollpane if it doesn't fit on the screen (for example, see the attached screenshot). This is probably the way to go in this case too, even though adding the scroll bar right below icons panel would eliminate some scrolling in this particular case. But since the reported problem really is an edge-case (higher font size, locale, additional plugin adding top-level option category), i suggest to go for standard rather than optimal solution.
Created attachment 62047 [details] How other dialogs in NB deal with this issue.
Created attachment 62048 [details] How other dialogs in NB deal with this issue.
I don't see it as major usability problem. As I understand it is enough if user resizes the Options dialog. In that case I am closing this issue as "wontfix".
User does not need to manually resize most windows or dialogs. I agree its not a critical issue but in general the problem needs a fix.
I agree with wontfix "solution" as we are dealing with an edge case here. And in this particular case reported, there is no real issue as there is no missing information. In the few cases when localization is significantly longer than English, resizing the dialog once (as it remembers it's size) will do the job, unless the font size is extreme. If anything, this is minor usability problem or minor annoyance, which is P4/P5.