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gLabels Label Designer (Qt/C++)

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Select Product UI abbreviates label names and makes them indistinguishable

smrqdt opened this issue · comments

The Select Product dialogue is very annoying to me as it crops the label media name to a very short and useless part.

small screenshot of problem

My own label formats have longer names of which only the manufacturers name an the first part of the article number is shown (screenshot). But I also found label media templates which are shipped with gLabels that have this problem (screenshot).

There isn’t even a tool tip or any other way to distinguish between similar label templates, the only way to find out is to select a label and look up the properties of the new document. I also would prefer, if there was a way to see information that is not included in the title, e.g. measurements. If you want to stick with the tile view (I’d prefer a list as in gLabels 3) an option would be to have a bar which shows this information if a label is selected, and a button to open the new document.

This is especially a problem with templates for roll media, because the preview only shows a single rectangular label and no distinguishable pattern of labels arranged on an A4 format.

For comparison, here is a screenshot of the Select Product dialog of gLabels 3, which has a detailed list and was in my opinion a much better solution.

Tested version: 3.99-master562 on Arch Linux with i3wm, the Qt5 theme is KDE’s Breeze (with dark colour scheme)

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