Text is cut in keychain store unencrypted password prompt

Bug #1721908 reported by Gold Star
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Shell
Confirmed
Medium
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I hope this bug is in keychain package. This is only a best guess.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Release: 17.10
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.13.0-12-generic #13-Ubuntu SMP Sat Sep 23 03:40:16 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

To reproduce,
Boot a daily live image (I am on beta 2 currently)
Open the Software Center
At the login prompt, use your Ubuntu account credentials
At the prompt for a new keychain password, leave both empty
Press Ok
See keychain dialog text is cut

Here's the closest textual representation of the dialog:

Store passwords unencrypted?

By choosing to use a blank password, your stored p...

Cancel Continue

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Gold Star (goldstar611) wrote :
affects: bugzilla (Ubuntu) → keychain (Ubuntu)
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Gold Star (goldstar611) wrote :

Changing from "keychain" to "keyring" I got a better look at the dialog again.

affects: keychain (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-keyring (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

affects: ubuntu-keyring (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Gold Star (goldstar611) wrote :
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Gold Star (goldstar611) wrote :

It appears this bug is not specific to the keyring package. Someone has already change to gnome-shell (thank you)

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other dialogs are affected by the same issue.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786331

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-shell:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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