For reference, J602 Package Manager also seems to deal with arbitrarily long package captions:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DavidMitchell?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=pacmanj602110107.png -- On 1/7/2011 5:44, bill lam wrote: > I was wrong. it should be the caption not the description shown. > > Maybe pacman in gtkide do things in the hard way by parsing the caption out > of the manifest. eg, full caption can be retrieved by > > 0!:0 'manifest'jpkg'tables/tara' > 'CAPTION'~ > > Птн, 07 Янв 2011, David Mitchell писал(а): >> Interestingly, pacman in gtkide seems to handle the current one line >> descriptions without truncation: >> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DavidMitchell?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=pacmangtkide110107.png >> -- >> >> On 1/6/2011 21:22, bill lam wrote: >>> I think current jpkg behavior is ok. What should be done is as you >>> suggested. Reformat description section inside manifest so that the first >>> line is limited to a maximum width and tells summary of the package. Detail >>> descriptions (if any) only start in the second line. >>> >>> Чтв, 06 Янв 2011, David Mitchell писал(а): >>>> Well, perhaps one approach would be to publish a "style guide" that >>>> documents >>>> the limits of the pacman display and suggests a maximum length for the >>>> one-line >>>> package description. The one line package descriptions only seem to be >>>> used on >>>> the pacman page, not on the description page. >>>> >>>> Since the only purpose of the one line description is to be included in the >>>> pacman display, it seems as if it would be nice if it were helpful >>>> determining >>>> the most important function of the addon. >>>> >>>> I found that, imagining I was a new user, the one line description for >>>> tara was >>>> not helpful in determining much about that addon at all. >>>> >>>> I certainly would not expect that the full descriptions be included in the >>>> pacman page. >>>> >>>> It does help to know that the full descriptions are available, but I felt >>>> there >>>> would be utility in having the one line descriptions be as meaningful as >>>> possible. >>>> >>>> Another idea would be to make the one line descriptions clickable links >>>> that >>>> take you to the long description for that addon. >>>> >>>> On 1/6/2011 16:03, Eric Iverson wrote: >>>>> I misunderstood your original report. I assumed you meant the report >>>>> resulting from pressing Descriptions button (which is complete and not >>>>> truncated). >>>>> >>>>> I now understand your report but am not sure if anything can or should be >>>>> done. Does knowing about that the full descriptions are available help? As >>>>> Ric points out the other reports are necessarily summaries. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, David >>>>> Mitchell<[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Please see this link: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DavidMitchell?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=pacman110106.png >>>>>> >>>>>> On 1/6/2011 11:54, Eric Iverson wrote: >>>>>>> I don't see this in JHS pacman. Are you perhaps reporting a problem with >>>>>>> JGTK pacman? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM, David Mitchell<[email protected] >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The pacman window (using Firefox) seems to cut off the descriptions of >>>>>>>> packages >>>>>>>> at an arbitrary width giving non-scrollable results like this: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> tables/tara 1.2.11 Platform independent system for >>>>>>>> reading >>>>>> an... >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>>>> >>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
