eom manpage has weird spacing with certain terminal sizes

Bug #1429170 reported by Lyn Perrine
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu MATE
Fix Released
Wishlist
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eom (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

to reproduce open terminator in lxde and resize the window such that it is 80x24 characters as shown in the red bar and run man eom. scroll down in the terminal until examples is visible under the text "eom -s /usr/share/eom/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions"
 The line stating" Open the images in the directory " has many spaces between the words and looks ugly. as shown in the screenshot. in the window on the upper left.
eom:
  Installed: 1.8.0+dfsg1-4
  Candidate: 1.8.0+dfsg1-4
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.0+dfsg1-4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04

I expected the manpage to read like normal text like most other manpages and not change spacing magically for certain terminal sizes. Instead 80x24 the default size terminator opens when I run it in lubuntu shows wierd spacing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: eom 1.8.0+dfsg1-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-7.7-generic 3.19.0
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Fri Mar 6 06:43:41 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-30 (156 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140930)
SourcePackage: eom
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2014-12-12 (83 days ago)

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Lyn Perrine (walterorlin) wrote :
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gravy45 (gravy45) wrote :

It is best to report it upstream, at the link mentioned in the manpage, if you haven't already:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom/issues

The issue is just how the eom man page is formatted. Plus there you could always issue a pull request and supply a corrected /usr/share/man/man1/eom.1.gz

See attachment example.

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gravy45 (gravy45) wrote :

One suggestion, I don't see why the description has to repeat the file location twice.

summary: - man eom has wierd spacing with certain terminal sizes
+ eom manpage has weird spacing with certain terminal sizes
Changed in ubuntu-mate:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in ubuntu-mate:
importance: Low → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in eom (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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gravy45 (gravy45) wrote :
Changed in eom (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in ubuntu-mate:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in ubuntu-mate:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in eom (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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