On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:56:23PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:05:20AM +0200, Matt Kraai wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:12:18PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > > I'm using the newt frontend, which looks pretty good, except for some > > > package names running off the edge of the screen during base install. > > > Maybe the frontend code could cut down the start of the filepath, > > > keeping the first word of the line intact, so it looks like: > > > > > > Retrieving: ...ebian/pool/main/f/foobar_1.2_ia64.deb > > > > > > Frotend-specific, of course, because the frontend is the bit that knows > > > how wide the window is. > > > > There is code in CVS to wrap long progress bar information. > > Ugh, just seen it in action. Very ugly, IMHO, with the window jumping > up and down the screen, changing height, and wrapping in the middle of > the package name (which is really the only interesting bit of > information in that text). > > I think it would look much nicer to abbreviate the line somehow (as in > my exapmle above) rather than wrap it. Maybe we do that in the front > end, or maybe we make debootstrap do it, working on some assumption such > as progress text should not be longer than 70 chars.
I'd prefer the latter. -- Matty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
