Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: usplash
I consider this a bug because every usplash theme has a fixed width
status area but one can set unlimited long status messages.
Overlong strings cause two types of visual glitches:
a. the text will be cut off at the right border of the text area when moved
upwards
b. the textpart outside of the text area stays (won't be moved upwards, won't
be cleared)
In my opinion a small text area needs only to reflect what's going to
happen and how it turned out. Scripts either fail or succeed therefor a
radical workaround would force short success and fail messages to be the
only possible status messages a script can set.
That leaves one problem: the fsck-scripts /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh and
/etc/init.d/checkfs.sh make use of functions in /lib/init/usplash-fsck-
functions.sh that allow to set the progress of fsck as a status message
(which too is too long). Maybe that should be written as "TEXT" but then
"TEXT" needs a way to update the message, which isn't possible right now
AFAIK.
I've attached some screenshots demonstrating the problem (overlong
status text, cut off status text, fsck-like progress).
Ubuntu intrepid (development branch) 8.10
Usplash 0.5.23
** Affects: usplash (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Status text length not limited
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276727
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