GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 709346
No automatic text wrapping in login screen info text (ellipsizing happens)
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:42:37 UTC
Created attachment 256354 [details] screenshot exhibiting truncated text issue When typing a wrong password in the login screen, an informational text message appears informing the user and asking to try again. This text is not wrapped, but instead shortened with "…". This possibly leads to truncated text, as for the German language. However, there is still space for a second line of text. I was not able to find a translator hint explaining this. (Our current workaround is to enforce a newline with "\n" which works perfectly)
This happens for some English messages (from pam), as well.
Same issue with messages in French about passwords having expired and needing to be changed, "last login was on...", or error messages.
at some point we preallocated two lines for that message and wrapped. It must have been lost during a code shuffle or so.
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