[Debconf-devel] Bug#504056: debconf: please provide a way to hint fixed-width text in gui frontends
sean finney
seanius at debian.org
Thu Oct 30 21:09:24 UTC 2008
Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.24
Severity: wishlist
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hi,
while normally i'd say having variable-width fonts in a gui interface is
a Good Thing, there are times where it is desirable to have fixed width
fonts. for example, if someone was doing column-oriented output, or in
the case which motivated this bug report, viewing the output of diff in
a text view (see attached).
Just shooting from the hip, i guess an easy way to do so would be to have
a new "Type: code" or similar, which is treated like "note" in all text
oriented frontends, and given fixed-width treatment in the gui frontends.
sean
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.24 full internationalization support
ii perl-base 5.10.0-16 minimal Perl system
Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 0.7.16 APT utility programs
Versions of packages debconf suggests:
ii debconf-doc 1.5.24 debconf documentation
ii debconf-utils 1.5.24 debconf utilities
ii gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-3 GNOME desktop utilities
ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-1+b1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libqt-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no description available)
ii perl 5.10.0-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
- -- debconf information excluded
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