** Description changed:

+ [ Impact ]
+ 
+ Shell modal dialogs contain text that may be truncated when using
+ certain locales
+ 
+ [ Test case ]
+ 
+ - Start a virtual machine with GNOME Boxes
+ - The keyboard prompt should be all visible
+ 
+ [ Regression potential ]
+ 
+ Text isn't properly rendered or the dialog is not all visible in the
+ display
+ 
+ ----
+ 
  When trying to start a virtual machine with Gnome Boxes, I get a prompt
  about keyboard shortcuts. The prompt text is localized, but translated
  back to English (I think, based on [1]) it says:
  
-     Boxes wants to inhibit shortcuts
+     Boxes wants to inhibit shortcuts
  
-     You can restore shortcuts by pressing Super+Escape.
+     You can restore shortcuts by pressing Super+Escape.
  
  In my locale (Finnish), it says
  
-     Sovellus Boksit haluaa rajoittaa pikanäppäinten toimintaa.
+     Sovellus Boksit haluaa rajoittaa pikanäppäinten toimintaa.
  
-     Voit palauttaa pikanäppäinten toiminnan painamalla Super...
+     Voit palauttaa pikanäppäinten toiminnan painamalla Super...
  
  (sic; see attached photo)
  
  So the actual key combination is truncated, defeating the point of that
  part of the text.
  
  This isn't a localization error (AFAICT; see [2]). It's caused by the
  text being forced to fit on a single line of an arbitrarily fixed width,
  instead of wrapping to span as many lines as needed.
  
  (I'm reporting this against gnome-shell as opposed gnome-boxes based on
  [3]. Feel free to reassign as necessary.)
  
  * [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874526#28
  * [2] 
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gnome-shell/+pots/gnome-shell/fi/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=pikan%C3%A4pp%C3%A4inten
  * [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668036
  
- ProblemType: Bug
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
+ ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-23.27-generic 5.4.29
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Apr  9 18:29:14 2020
  DisplayManager: gdm3
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-13 (1274 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 
(20160719)
  ProcEnviron:
-  TERM=xterm-256color
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
-  LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
- RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
- SourcePackage: gnome-shell
+  TERM=xterm-256color
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+  LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
+ RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.0-2ubuntu1SourcePackage: 
gnome-shell
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-05 (4 days ago)

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  Shell dialog text is truncated and ellipsized

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