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Bug 608859 - Status messages truncated in tooltip and "Information" dialog
Status messages truncated in tooltip and "Information" dialog
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Contact List
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 613879 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-03 04:08 UTC by Jason Ekstrand
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Screenshot of empathy displaying bug (75.47 KB, image/png)
2010-02-03 04:08 UTC, Jason Ekstrand
Details

Description Jason Ekstrand 2010-02-03 04:08:11 UTC
Created attachment 152903 [details]
Screenshot of empathy displaying bug

Sometimes status messages are arbitrarily truncated in the tooltip and "Information" dialog. Status messages are not always truncated. This bug is not affected by the contact's status (Away, Idle, etc.) or the exact length of the status message. Status messages are truncated to a seemingly random length. See the attached screen-shot for an example.

I would love to give instructions on reproducing this bug, but as it is non-deterministic, I can't.
Comment 1 Omer Akram 2010-03-25 08:42:31 UTC
*** Bug 613879 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-03-25 10:00:05 UTC
Any idea how to reproduce this issue? I typed the same message as the one in the screenshot and it was properly displayed.
Comment 3 Michael Ekstrand 2010-05-28 00:43:38 UTC
I witnessed this bug today and did some debugging to try to figure it out.  I finally isolated it to the EmpathyContactWidget.  If the Pango word wrap mode is changed from WORD_CHAR to CHAR on the status GtkLabel, the entire message is displayed.  With WORD_CHAR (or with WORD), the message truncates.  Therefore, it looks like a bug somewhere in GTK+ or Pango.

I am using the default theme on Ubuntu Lucid.
Comment 4 Michael Ekstrand 2010-05-28 01:23:52 UTC
The status message that triggered it today (sans initial quote):

Deanne's definition of a romantic story (as overheard by Mom):  "A romantic story is when the princess gets captured or something and the prince comes and rescues her."

The status is truncated after "rescues".
Comment 5 Tobias Mueller 2010-10-10 00:34:01 UTC
Reopening as I guess the requested information has been provided.
Comment 6 Damian 2010-10-17 22:08:19 UTC
I'm having the same problem on Ubuntu 10.10.
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:00:31 UTC
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