[Debconf-devel] Bug#504056: debconf: please provide a way to hint fixed-width text in gui frontends

[sean finney]

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

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