iubuntu dash truncate the name of all application searched - no way to see the complete name

Bug #1843984 reported by betteropensource
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

I installed avidemux, which installed two packages with the same initial part of their names: avidemux2.7_jobs_qt5 and avidemux2.7_qt5.
By clicking SUPER, the Dash will appear. If I search for "avidemux" the two elements appear but because of the name truncated, I can't differentiate them, either are showed with the name "avidemux 2.7 (".
Right-clicking on one of these there is the "details" option but it bring me to the "ubuntu software" application that does not recognize the application saying "application not found".
I think that the choose to truncate the application name in the Dash is simply a design bug.
This is very annoying: there is enough space to see the compllete name, instead of truncate it to the preview image size...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: dash 0.5.8-2.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-27.28~18.04.1-generic 5.0.21
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 14 10:42:12 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-07 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
betteropensource (betteropensource) wrote :
Paul White (paulw2u)
affects: dash (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

hank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 968213, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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