App Lounge 2.3.9 - text in text boxes in certain occasions too small to be readable
- /e/ version: v1.5-Q/S
- Device model(s): Beryllium
- Device rooted: no
Summary
In the past there was a problem with the text box text in in App Lounge - especially then overall text size was scaled up and certain languages where used that need more screen space than English (e.g. German).
In the latest iteration of App Lounge 2.3.9 it seems that the text of text boxes is scaled down in order to fit to text boxes. As a consequence, when using German as system language, the text size is becoming unreadable.
This problem occurs, no matter if the system text size is set to normal, large or very large (see screenshots 1-3 below) The problem is mainly visible on the update overview page. On the page of specific apps (screenshot 4) this seems to be much less of a problem.
The problem
Steps to reproduce
- Select German as system language
- set App Lounge to Manual Update
- install apps
- wait until the apps receive an update
- Now those apps appear in App Lounge. The text within the text box (update = "Aktualisierung") is a long term and therefore scaled down a lot. If an app update fails, App Lounge proposes to reinstall, the respective German command "Nochmal installieren" is even truncated.
The described problems apply to search queries as well.
What is the expected correct behavior?
No matter what text size a users sets and no matter what system language a users installs, the text boxes should remain readable to all users without difficulties (which is not the case now). As a consequence in this case various solutions could be imagined
- floating text within the text boxes in case of too long text strings
- scaling box size with text string length
- use symbols instead of the text
- remove the install/update buttons from the update overview page; let users enter the app specific page in order to update manually.
Technical informations
Screenshot 1 and 2: App Lounge, list of updatable apps, text size Very large and large (German)
Screenshot 3: App Lounge, list of updatable apps, normal text (German). Screenshot 4: App Lounge, sample app large text, app specific page (German)
Screenshot 5: App Lounge, list of updatable apps, large text size (English) - to show how the problem does not emerge in English (likely that the page was designed for English language text only).