update-manager split changelogs lines

I can recreate this behavior on my PC.

You can resize the window once, and the next time you open the update-manager window, the size will be remembered. I hope this works for you, for now.

I am marking this as "wishlist" since it does not impede normal working.

we could try to render the changelog better. we did so for the description, but the changelog is a lot trickier. so i would target this for dapper+1

Hello,

> we could try to render the changelog better. we did so for the
> description, but the changelog is a lot trickier. so i would target
> this
> for dapper+1
That's so terrible to win.resize(400,300) ?

Étienne.

I could ask you the same. Setting a fixed size is bad because you can only match one case. If you care about l18n (strings of different length) and a18n (different font sizes) you won't suggest this.

Hello,

> Setting a fixed size is bad because you can only match one case. If
> you care about l18n (strings of different length) and a18n
> (different font sizes) you won't suggest this.
I do not suggest do fix the size, just change the default width of
the window so users wont see odd line-breaks. That's all. ChangesLog
are in english, so there is no matter of i18n here.

I just suggest to use set a more consistent default behaviour.
Because with the current behaviour, *all* users which want to read
changes with correct line break have to resize the width of the
window. This is not my configuration, but the default ubuntu one.

Étienne.

Currently I would like to completely disable the wrapping of the changelog, since a wrapped line is always a format error. We would get a h-scrollbar for too long lines.

What do you think about this, Étienne?

Hello,

Sorry, for silence. I forgot to answer.

Yes, horizontal scrollbar is an enhancement. That will at least make
people understand that they window can fit the text. And if they
reduce window size, they wont be surprise by seeing end of line
becomine half lines. (wish you understand).

That's the point : currently ChangeLog aren't designed to fit
windows. So te windows have to fit Changelog width. Luckely, this is
not annoying. (e.g. Evolution preference windows width was annoying
for small screen, ChangeLogs do not). A 300 pixels width dialog is
not annoying users.

But the best (for the future) is to use translatable string that fit
windows width. Both for Changes and Description. Those limitations
are upstream : deb, ChangeLog. Not update-manager guilt.

Étienne.

Could you please clearify how you get the 300 pixels width? I need 666 to avoid wrapping and these is too wide for the default.

Please set the correct window size and run:

sudo gconftool-2 --get /apps/update-manager/window_size

Hello,

> sudo gconftool-2 --get /apps/update-manager/window_size
The key has no value !?!? :$

I made screenshot. Wish that helps : http://bersace03.free.fr/pub/
captures/update-manager/ .

Étienne.

Hello,

> + Sebastian:
> + Outstanding issue: reformat the changelog using some regular
> expression magic.

I can write some Perl Compatible Regular Expression for this.

Étienne.

You use a width of 592 pixel in the screenshots. Far too wide for a 640x480 desktop.

Are you sure that you haven't missed the "sudo" in the gconftool-2 call?

It needs more than some regular expression since we need to guess the depth of the bullet listings. Perhaps this is a "won't fix", since the required effort is quite high.

if you are interessted you could take a look at the rendering code for package descriptions in gnome-app-install: AppInstall/AppInstall.py line 951 and following

Hello,

Sorry, i missed the sudo. The width is 580. And yes, that's too wide.
At least, use h-scrollbars.

I'm not a python programmer. C and PHP (which with I play some PCRE
tricks). That's out of my skills.

Étienne.

An horizontal scrollbar has been implemented since then. We are closing this report.