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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009960 | ardour | features | public | 2025-07-29 11:17 | 2026-06-25 14:08 |
| Reporter | GhostsonAcid | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | macOS | OS | Mojave | OS Version | 10.14.6 |
| Product Version | 8.12 | ||||
| Summary | 0009960: Extended/Truncated track or bus names should be shown upon a mouse hover in the editor, not "Track/Bus name..." | ||||
| Description | -See the attached gif. Maybe it's just on macOS, but when you hover over a track or bus' name (in the editor) you simple see exactly this: "Track/Bus name (double click to edit)" I think this is somewhat pointless given situations where a name is *truncated* because it's too long. Thus, instead I suggest it should be made to be more helpful like so: "[Actual Track/Bus Name Here] (double click to edit)" | ||||
| Additional Information | It's frankly hard to cram track/bus names into such a small number of characters. -So ensuring that when it IS truncated that a simple mouse-hover will reveal the full-name (instead of double-clicking) would be a nice, helpful touch! Thanks for reading, -J | ||||
| Tags | bus, mouse hover, name, names, track, truncate, truncated | ||||
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For example, this, from Ardour v2, is 'obviously' superior. There was no need to change this. |
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This was fixed in f84feb27. I have one small tweak (patch attached) which I think looks nicer: I reckon the "(double click to edit)" text should be on a separate line. 0004-put-informative-message-in-route-name-label-on-its-o.patch (1,323 bytes)
From 16492b7feddab15f7e7b723cdcc71e164aa1106d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Fletcher <colin.m.fletcher@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:09:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 04/10] put informative message in route name label on its own
line
I think this looks a little bit better.
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gtk2_ardour/route_time_axis.cc | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/route_time_axis.cc b/gtk2_ardour/route_time_axis.cc
index 177adffbc1..6f169288aa 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/route_time_axis.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/route_time_axis.cc
@@ -431,12 +431,12 @@ RouteTimeAxisView::label_view ()
string x = _route->name ();
if (x != name_label.get_text ()) {
name_label.set_text (x);
- ArdourWidgets::set_tooltip (name_label, string_compose (_("%1 (double click to edit)"), x));
+ ArdourWidgets::set_tooltip (name_label, string_compose (_("%1\n(double click to edit)"), x));
}
inactive_label.set_text (string_compose("(%1)", x));
inactive_label.show ();
- ArdourWidgets::set_tooltip (inactive_label, string_compose (_("%1 (Inactive, right click to activate)"), x));
+ ArdourWidgets::set_tooltip (inactive_label, string_compose (_("%1\n(Inactive, right click to activate)"), x));
const int64_t track_number = _route->track_number ();
if (track_number == 0) {
--
2.47.3
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| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | New Issue | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | Tag Attached: bus | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | Tag Attached: mouse hover | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | Tag Attached: name | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | Tag Attached: names | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | Tag Attached: track | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | Tag Attached: truncate | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | Tag Attached: truncated | |
| 2025-07-29 11:17 | GhostsonAcid | File Added: Ardour (8,12) - No Extended Track or Bus Name is Shown Upon Mouse Hover.gif | |
| 2025-09-23 09:54 | GhostsonAcid | Note Added: 0029448 | |
| 2025-09-23 09:54 | GhostsonAcid | File Added: Ardour (2,8,16) - Hover to Show Full Track and Bus Names.gif | |
| 2026-06-25 14:08 | colinf | Note Added: 0030550 | |
| 2026-06-25 14:08 | colinf | File Added: 0004-put-informative-message-in-route-name-label-on-its-o.patch |