Re: help wrapping metadata fields

[Pablo Rodríguez <oinos web de>]

Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> В Чтв, 22/01/2009 в 00:17 +0100, Pablo Rodríguez пишет:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > more than two years ago, I reported the following bug 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319402: metadata must be 
> > wrapped and not ellipsized (this is what I have just understood after 
> > some time trying to understand the code).
> >
> > [...]
>
> As I wrote it used to be wrapped, but due to the problems with nautilus
> page size it was changed to ellipsis. If you could intellecutally
> restrict the size of the page that would work, otherwise large metadata
> contents could make page too big to fit the screen. I wonder if GtkLabel
> has or should have something like vertical ellipsis so the label will
> not be bigger than 3 lines.

Thanks for your reply, Nickolay.

I think that the proper solution for this issue would be to provide an 
ellipsis version for nautilus and a wrapped version for the program itself.

If they have different requirements, they should have slightly modified 
versions, shouldn't they?

Thanks,


Pablo