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UX: It's hard to read the column name when cropped #543

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fflorent opened this issue Jun 22, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #720
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UX: It's hard to read the column name when cropped #543

fflorent opened this issue Jun 22, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #720
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@fflorent
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I noticed that the column name, when they are cropped, are hard to be identified unless we expand the width.
2023-06-22_08-05

However, sometimes it does not make sense to expand the column width, as the values are just simple values (numbers, boolean checkboxes).

I am not sure how to solve this. Here are some options I have in mind:

  • add a tooltip in the column name so we can have the full name on demand (probably not mobile-friendly);
  • allow the user to expand the height of the header, so the column name is rendered on several lines;

What do you think?

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dsagal commented Jun 22, 2023

We added an overflowTooltip() handler a few months ago, currently used only for pages. You can see the commit that adds it here: 86681de.

It seems a reasonable thing to try for column names, basically addressing the issue using your first suggestion.

The second suggestion has come up too, with a few wishes around that. It's not mutually exclusive to a tooltip, and there are definitely non-trivial design decisions to be made for supporting taller column headers.

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