eclipse-theia/theia

Status bar items should have length limit

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#5,925 opened on Aug 13, 2019

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Description

Description

Now items in status bar don't have any limitation in length. If an item displays long line of text it will gone over right border and hide all the status bar items to the right of current one (left and right aligned ones, including Toggle Bottom Panel button).

On the screen below one left aligned item is gone as Toggle Bottom Panel does. java-ls

Reproduction Steps

Just add an item into status bar with a lot of text

Contributor guide

Research direction
Look for the status bar component in the source code and find where items are rendered; add a CSS max width or text overflow property to limit item length and prevent overflow.
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
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Bug
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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75