Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: zenity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1206760
Title:
Zenity text windows too tall with long text
Status in “zenity” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
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.
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