Synaptic Dialogs do not wrap text labels dynamically when windows are resized

I just noticed that the Synaptic Search/Find dialog window has problems with
large fonts as well. The text-entry and dropdown list both extend past the right
border of the window.

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can confirm parts of this problem only partly on my (post-colony3) breezy system.

> -Mark additional required changes
Looks ok here.

> -Summary
Looks ok here.

> -Applying Changes
Looks broken.

> -Changes Applied
Looks broken.

> Search/Find
Broken.

I fixed Search/Find and Applying Changes, Changes Applied (will be part of the
next upload).

Can you please add a screenshot that shows the other breakage?

Thanks,
 Michael

I uploaded a fixed version: synaptic_0.57.4ubuntu4. It works reasonable well
with 16pt fonts for me. I close the bug therefore, please reopen if you still
experience strange looking dialog in this version.

Created an attachment (id=3437)
Synaptic 0.57.4ubuntu4 Screenshot

The text does not wrap correctly and "Changes" in the titlebar should probably
be lowercase.

Created an attachment (id=3438)
Synaptic 0.57.4ubuntu4 Screenshot

The text does not wrap correctly.

Created an attachment (id=3439)
Synaptic 0.57.4ubuntu4 Screenshot

The text does not wrap correctly.

Created an attachment (id=3440)
Synaptic 0.57.4ubuntu4 Screenshot

The text does not wrap correctly.

I still see many bugs with synaptic_0.57.4ubuntu4.

Created an attachment (id=3441)
#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Alpha i386 (20050817)]/ breezy main
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Synaptic 0.57.4ubuntu4 (downloading package information)

Text does not wrap correctly and "Downloading package information" label is not
centered.

(From update of attachment 3441)
Text does not wrap correctly and "Downloading package information" label is not
centered.

Thanks for your additional info on that bug.

I'm doing a upload now that will fix the first two issues. The other issues
happen only if you manually resize the window, right? I'm not sure if there is a
lot synaptic can do about that, because the used gtk labels are not overly smart
when it comes to resizing. But I will look into it.

Cheers,
 Michael

Here is the related gtk problem that makes the label not work as expected:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101968#c8

Seems like a nasty bug to have been open for so long (2002). I also can't
understand why it's marked as "enhancement" upstream.

(In reply to comment #13)
> Seems like a nasty bug to have been open for so long (2002). I also can't
> understand why it's marked as "enhancement" upstream.

I agree. It looks like it's hard to fix with the current gtk GtkLabel design. I
played a bit with various offical gnome apps today and I noticed that they
carefully seem to avoid labels that span over more than one column :)

Cheers,
 Michael

I reassign it to gtk because the root of the problem is a limitation in gtk.

Michael, what do you call "one column"? Do you have a simple example for that issue?

Seb: I think the link here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101968#c8 shows the problem very nicely.

With "one column" I mean, it seems that gnome avoids labels that take a lot of text. This way the problem is avoided too because small labels work pretty well. But when they become big and span over more than a single line (warping) things get a bit less optimal.

this was fixed long time ago.