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Bug#758984: marked as done (graphical installer: in some languages partitioning help does not fit into the screen)

Your message dated Sun, 6 Jan 2019 11:24:34 +0100
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and subject line graphical installer: in some languages partitioning help does not fit into the screen
has caused the Debian Bug report #758984,
regarding graphical installer: in some languages partitioning help does not fit into the screen
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Package: partman


Hi,

I found that depending on the language the partitioning help text
does not fit into the screen when using the graphical installer.
>From the partitioning main screen you can call a partitioning help,
which is displayed as a popup window, laying over the main installer
interface.
This popup lacks a scrollbar, and therefore there maybe some unvisible
part of the text, if the text has more than 40 lines (at least on my
machine; unsure if this is depending on the screen resolution and so
on?).
In the text installer you can scroll this page down (although there
is no visible scrollbar).

Additionally to the unvisible text problem there is also the "Continue"
button at the bottom of that popup, which is no more visible. So users
might end up with canceling the installation and power-cycling their machine,
because they see no other possibility to close the popup than via
hard-switching off the machine (just pressing ENTER also works to close
the popup, but since this is the graphical installer, people might be 
focussed on using the mouse and don't get the idea to simply press the 
Enter key).


Adding the possiblity to scroll the popup would be the perfect solution
for this, but somehow I thought, this might be not so easy.

That's why I have shrinked the german translation of that partitioning
help, so that it does not take more place than the english one (in
summary).
But in some languages this might be not possible...

Also, it might be possible to change the width of that popup, since it only
has a width of ~55 characters. Expanding that to let's say 80 characters would
give a lot more room. Maybe this solution is less complicated than adding
a scrollbar?


Cheers
Holger

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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>

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This has been fixed by shortening the text contents, thanks to translators.

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1011757/accepted-partman-target-111-source-into-unstable/

So closing this bug (forgot to mention in changelog)


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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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