Control: tags -1 + pending
2016-02-22 23:48 To Vincent Lefevre:
Also note that the host is truncated even when there is no size
information. For instance:
aptitude 0.7.6 @ cven
and that's all with a 80-column terminal!
I don't recall the details, but I think that aptitude/cwidget reserve
the space even if the other fields don't have any text in them, and
there are fields for "Broken", "Will use/free space", and "DL Size".
The minimum for the hostname should be 8, expandable but not shrinkable,
but either it's not doing that or it overcommits space available and
then shinks anyway.
This was due to another field which shouldn't be getting in the way in
default_width.
Fixed, marking as +pending.
I don't understand why both the hostname and "disk space" are
truncated. Also, instead of "Will free 357 kB of disk spa",
which should be "Will free 357 kB of disk space", how about:
Disk: -357 kB
(with the sign - for "free" and + for "use").
Note that "space" and "size" are redundant with the kB/MB/... size unit.
Instead of "DL Size:", you could write "DL:" or "Download:".
Actually, when fiddling with the above I thought about rephrasing
specially the longer "Will free...", maybe somethink like "Disk after
install: blah", "Disk usage change: blah", "Disk usage: blah" or
similar. Not much shorter but it will probably be enough. I am not
sure if just "Disk" is descriptive enough for new/casual users.
I didn't go ahead to try to not make it worse, or to make possibly
unnecessary changes that might unplease some users more avert to change
in general, or the new phrases in particular.
So I changed this to "Disk usage:" in another commit, so there will be
more space now, and in principle shouldn't be truncated with 80-width
terminals.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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