[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

[Colin Watson]

No, simply removing that line or making it RTL-specific doesn't make
sense, I'm afraid.  Either layout.set_width is needed in all languages,
or it isn't needed in any languages: it doesn't make sense for it to be
LTR-specific.  It *does* affect LTR languages; if you boot to a live CD
desktop ("Try Ubuntu") in current Oneiric, comment out the
layout.set_width line in /usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py,
run ubiquity, and go to the second page in English, you'll see that the
layout of the "Ubuntu uses third-party software ..." label is poor: it
doesn't use the full width of the window as it should.  This is, as I
understand it, exactly the problem Evan was trying to solve with this
function.

It looks to me as though what's happening is that we're setting the
correct width in the RTL case, but the left-hand X coordinate for the
layout isn't being updated to match, so the layout overflows the right-
hand side of the screen.  Could you look at fixing this instead?

This may well be moot for Oneiric anyway, since we should be on GTK+ 3
by then, but it wouldn't hurt to investigate this in the meantime.

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Title:
  Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  In Ubiquity (GTK), after selecting Hebrew (or any other Right To Left
  language) the entire GUI will be flipped and the text displayed on the
  first screen is truncated. It looks like the language selector
  overlaps the welcome text.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Reboot from the Ubuntu Desktop live CD.
  2. In the first screen select Hebrew - the screen will be flipped and truncated text will be displayed.
  OR
  2. Select "Try Ubuntu.."
  3. After Desktop is loaded click the "Install Ubuntu" icon - ubiquity will start.
  4. In Ubiquity's first screen select "Hebrew" - the screen will flip and text will 

  Please note that I think this bug might be related to LP bug #557164
  (the fix might be the same) but I think my case is more related to the
  flipping of the entire GUI (which doesn't occur in Spanish).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.2.15
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Apr  9 01:14:19 2010
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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