Bug#149691: marked as done (gdialog: does not wrap text as
documented in its manpage)
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Subject: gdialog: does not wrap text as documented in its manpage
From: "Branden Robinson" <branden@progeny.com>
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Package: gnome-utils
Version: 1.4.1.2-4
Severity: normal
gdialog's manpage makes the following claims:
If this string is too long to be fitted in one line, it will be
automatically divided into multiple lines at appropriate places.
The text string may also contain the sub-string "\n" or newline
charac ters `\n´ to control line breaking explicitly.
The first sentence is imperfectly implemented and the second is just
plain false, as far as I can tell.
gdialog does do automatic wrapping, but it does not eliminate inter-word
spaces when it does so.
So if you wrap a line like this
It comes out looking
like this.
(Note the leading space.)
Also, no combination of quoting I tried got explicit linebreaking to
work. gdialog's parser seems to understand that "\n" and explicit
newlines are something special, but it appears to throw them away, and
does not actually insert a linebreak at the given location. Instead, it
eliminates the newlines from the input stream and wraps the lines
wherever it wants to.
Here's an example you can use to reproduce this problem:
gdialog --title "Run GNOME task selector?" --yesno \
'If you wish, the GNOME task selector can be run now. This will permit
you to install Debian packages corresponding to certain usage profiles,
such as Japanese localization, games, or software development in the C
language.
Otherwise, you can skip this step and do packge management at a later
time, or using a different tool.
Would you like to use the GNOME task selector now?' 20 70
Replacing the explicit linebreaks above with "\n" does not change
gdialog's behavior at all.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux zuul.progeny.com 2.4.18-386 #2 Sun Apr 14 10:38:08 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages gnome-utils depends on:
ii e2fsprogs [libext2fs2] 1.27-2 The EXT2 file system utilities and
ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.14-4 Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library fo
ii gnome-core 1.4.0.8-3 Common files for Gnome core apps
ii libart2 1.4.1.7-1 The GNOME canvas widget - runtime
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 The Audiofile Library
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-16 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii libesd0 0.2.23-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
pn libext2fs2 Not found.
ii libfreetype6 2.0.9-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgal19 0.19.2-2 G App Libs (run time library)
ii libgconf11 1.0.9-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 0.17.0-2 The GNOME Canvas pixbuf library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2 0.17.0-2 The GdkPixBuf library.
ii libglade-gnome0 1:0.17-2.2 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglade0 1:0.17-2.2 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-5 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome32 1.4.1.7-1 The GNOME libraries
ii libgnomeprint15 0.35-5 The GNOME Print architecture - run
ii libgnomesupport0 1.4.1.7-1 The GNOME libraries (Support libra
ii libgnomeui32 1.4.1.7-1 The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii libgnorba27 1.4.1.7-1 GNOME CORBA services
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-12 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libgtkhtml20 1.0.2-1 HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii libgtkxmhtml1 1.4.1.7-1 The GNOME gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget
ii libgtop1 1.0.13-3 Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii libguile9 1:1.4-24 libraries for Guile1.4 (guile, gui
ii libjpeg62 6b-5 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii liboaf0 0.6.10-2 The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii liborbit0 0.5.16-1 Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-applet0 1.4.0.8-3 Library for Gnome Panel applets
ii libpng2 1.0.12-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii libungif4g 4.1.0b1-2 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libxml1 1:1.8.17-2 GNOME XML library
ii oaf 0.6.10-2 The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.8-1 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii xlibs 4.1.0-17 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
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Subject: Closing
From: Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>
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Zenity does The Right Thing which is wrapping as required, hard-breaking
when a newline is specified.
Ross
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