Ubiquity gtk dialogs could be large in width

[Hugh Greenberg]

The gtk dialogs in the Ubiquity frontend have a width based of the lines in the dialog text. The dialog will stretch to the width of the screen if line contains enough characters to span the width of the screen. The attached patch wraps messages to 100 characters so the dialog width doesn't get so huge.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Hugh Greenberg (hugegreenbug)]

The last patch had issues, sorry. This one should work. It limits the lines to 100 characters.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

You should instead set the "max-width-chars" property on the dialogs

[Iain Lane (laney)]

(thanks for the fix!)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

I'd like to echo Iain's comments here; I'm happy to sponsor a patch to limit the width of dialogs, but I would prefer if it used max-width-chars (or an equivalent for the KDE component).

Hugh, would you have time to update your patch to at least use the property for the gtk dialog? I'm happy to do the research for the Qt variant of it and patch that component myself (or I can let you do it if you're interested).

I'm assigning this bug to you for now, but we'll look again soon; it would be great to fix this for the 15.10 release.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(unsubscribing sponsors meanwhile, please subscribe them back when it's ready for review with the requested changes)

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.