[Bug 1305021] Re: Request: adaptive interface column widths

[Shahar Or]

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Title:
  Request: adaptive interface column widths

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm always grateful for the astronomically useful Aptitude.

  According to my testing, the last three columns; 'size', 'current
  version' and 'available version', are fixed width, as their width
  stays ever the same.

  The width of the first column, the 'name', changes in order to
  accommodate the width of the terminal.

  Version strings of a considerable amount of packages are longer than
  the fixed width of the columns that they show up in, thus they get
  displayed only partially.

  It is then required that, in order to view the version strings, one
  must select each corresponding package and enter it's detailed view.

  Therefore I imagine that a program behavior that would be comfortable
  is that the version string columns would be large enough where
  terminal width reasonably allows it.

  Blessings

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: aptitude 0.6.8.2-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Apr  9 14:36:06 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-12 (1274 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-10-26 (164 days ago)

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