[Issue]: NavBar Items Overflow for some languages about jellyflix HOT 4 CLOSED

if you have time to play with this i would look at the text overflow parameters. iirc flutter offers "ellipsis" and "fade" and both can be used with or without line wrap. frankly we depend on non-english readers to tell us which combination of these is going to look better more often.

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it occurs to me that the text scales now in develop too so maybe a soluton could involve exposing a config view with a slider for the text size. I kinda always meant to write that into the text scaler anyway because it could allow the text to be scaled way way up for accessibility purposes.

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This kind a of a different problem. Normally we do have a way to extend the text in one direction or it isn't important to fully see the text. In this case you should be able to see the whole label even if you have to scale it down. Or we scale up the width of the navbar.
I assign you the issue, let me know if you need something.

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I've given this some thought and I think we implement the solution in the form of contributor and/or style guidelines. We should simply divine what our maximum string length reasonably is and force the user to use it. It's a bit outside my wheelhouse but it would be neat if we could make the CI enforce it. Then, if we encounter a situation where a contributor just can't make a particular string work, then and only then do we do the hard work of re-evaluating the layout code.

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ok this has progressed in chat just a bit and I think we have established that the standard solution is just implementing TextOverflow.Ellipsis
No reason we need to make it more complicated than that.

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