Public bug reported:
It seems that with many versions of zenity 3.60 and below, 3 of the text
type dialogs ( --info --warning --error ) have significant sizing issues
with text wrapping enabled. Long strings of text seem to cause extreemly
tall dialogs
such as this first example
zenity --info --text " Hello there friends. Hello there friends. Hello there
friends. Hello there friends. d d d d d d d d d d d dd asdfsadf sdf sad fas
dfas dfas df a adsfasfas"
one workaround might be to turn off wrapping
zenity --info --text " Hello there friends. Hello there friends. Hello there
friends. Hello there friends. d d d d d d d d d d d dd asdfsadf sdf sad fas
dfas dfas df a adsfasfas" --no-wrap
but this can cause dialogs to be too large vertically
I noticed that by forcing the minimal width as so, (I pass 1, but it seems that
zenity uses a hardcoded minimum)
zenity --info --text " Hello there friends. Hello there friends. Hello there
friends. Hello there friends. d d d d d d d d d d d dd asdfsadf sdf sad fas
dfas dfas df a adsfasfas" --width=1
the height of the dialog seems to be the same as the first example. However,
with the skinny dialog, the full dialog is used, and the text is wrapped much
better.
Therefore, my guess is that when text wrapping is enabled (which it is
by default) for --info --warning and --error Zenity is wrapping the text
with the hardcoded minimal width, and calculating the needed height for
wrapping the text with the minimal width. However, zenity usually later
on uses a different much wider width when the dialog is displayed, which
therefore causes the text wrapping to use less height.
However zenity still ends up setting the height of the window to what it
would need to be to fit the text if the window was the minimal width, in
cases causing excessivly large and tall zenity windows.
This is just my guess from what I can see.
dialogs with --question seem to be sized a bit more sanely.
** Affects: zenity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1206760
Title:
Zenity text windows too tall with long text
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zenity/+bug/1206760/+subscriptions
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
