zenity --entry --text... Don't interprets "\n"

Bug #317140 reported by Juan Simón
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Zenity
Fix Released
Medium
zenity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: zenity

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

$ apt-cache policy zenity
zenity:
  Instalados: 2.22.1-1
  Candidato: 2.22.1-1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 2.22.1-1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.grn.cat hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

zenity --entry --text="text 1\ntext 2"

When Zenity it shows this entry window, it shows "text 1\ntext 2" literally, It doesn't the line break.

Changed in zenity:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567773

Changed in zenity:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Triaged
Changed in zenity:
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote :

I've send a patch for this to upstream.

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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote :

I've got a GNOME Git account now and convinced someone to ensure my patch won't kill kittens so, this is fixed upstream now! :)

Changed in zenity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote :

This issue is solved in newer zenity versions (at least under Ubuntu Lucid), sadly I was searching in changelogs and don't appears nothing about this, any way, is fixed. Thanks!

Changed in zenity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in zenity:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: New → Fix Released
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