[systemd-devel] eye of cylon / timeout timer is cut off

[Michael Biebl]

2014-08-14 17:17 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> On Sun, 27.07.14 21:47, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as you can see at the attached diff, there is a small issue with the
>> timer that is disabled, when systemd is waiting for a job.
>>
>> In this case, the job is already running 1min 17secs, but only 17 secs
>> is displayed, the other part is cut off.
>
> Hmm, well, we currently ellipsize at 75% of the line width. I have now
> moved that to 50%, so that there's a chance that the time is still shown
> on tiny displays.

Well, that's the standard resolution on non-KMS enabled systems, like
in a virtualized environment (the screenshot was made using vbox).
So it's pretty common, I'd say.

 But it's a stupid game. We will have to cut out
> something...
>
> Anyway, let's see if people complain about this new setting too...

With 50% being the cut-off, you'll only be able to see "A stop job is
running..." afaics without showing the actual unit which is being
waited for.
That doesn't sound great either.




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