Show titles truncated

[corvock]

I am noticing show titles with a colon “:” get cut off. So I am watching “Star Trek: Lower Decks”, but it shows up in the dashboard as “Star Trek”. It seems like I had seen that it is truncating various things. I was curious the rationale

[jakedev796]

It's intentional based on the code. Likely an approach to keep show titles clean and not too long. Personally, I feel like just having a character limit where it turns into 'Star Trek: Lower De...' looks better and is less jarring.

I can create a PR with that design instead if @nichtlegacy is interested.

Relevant code

    def _get_formatted_title(self, session) -> str:
        """Format content title based on its type."""
        if hasattr(session, "grandparentTitle"):
            series_title = session.grandparentTitle.split(":")[0].split("-")[0].strip()
            episode_info = (
                f"S{session.parentIndex:02d}E{session.index:02d}"
                if hasattr(session, "parentIndex") and hasattr(session, "index")
                else ""
            )
            return f"{series_title} - {episode_info}"
        year = f" ({session.year})" if hasattr(session, "year") and session.year else ""
        return f"{session.title}{year}"

[corvock]

agree and in the case of my example Star Trek is different from anything that starts with Star Trek: which was what threw me when i saw it on the dashboard