Comment 5 for bug 619477

Omer:
Per Mark's comments above, this is a temporary workaround to truncate the first word and put it there.

Mark:
What about allowing apps to declare some sort of short title attribute to be shown in that area? Sure all existing apps would need to be modified to support this and new apps include it, but if you specify that the short title can only be say 15 characters long, you would be guaranteed not to need to truncate possibly in bad areas.

Then you can say if the app doesn't provide the short title attribute, you fall back to this behavior of truncating for that area.