gnome-system-log should use some wrapping

[David Hugh-Jones]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

Would be nice to have a word wrap option to read those long system log lines.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 17 14:33:04 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-log
Package: gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, is your issue similar to bug #37877?

[David Hugh-Jones (davidhughjones)]

Yup, it's a dupe. Sorry.

[David Hugh-Jones (davidhughjones)]

Actually, not quite a dupe. Yes, they now have a horizontal scrollbar, but it's still a major pain to read long lines - if you flip between logs, the scrollbar gets reset to the left hand side. So this is a wishlist item for a word wrap option. I expect Gnome will reject it because Options Are Wrong, but I have built the source and might try and fix it myself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The request has been sent on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548594