Dear Maintainer,

There is some message truncation during the phase of partition setup where a
storage device used for encrypted volumes is erased. I've taken screen shots
using a virtual machine but I don't see a way to attach images with the report-
bug tool. I'm supplying links to imgur instead.

Graphical installer showing message truncation: https://i.imgur.com/l1qLGNk.png
Text installer with no truncation: https://i.imgur.com/pFWV2kY.png
Galery of both images: https://imgur.com/a/XD3lPpc

Steps to reproduce:
  1) Boot Alpha 1 version of Trixie installer in Graphical mode
  2) Partition with encrypted storage
  3) Ensure option to erase storage device is enabled
  4) View message supplied when erasing data

Hi,

Tyler Riddle <cardboardaardvark@gmail.com> wrote (Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:53:02 -0600):

A possible workaround is at
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-crypto/-/merge_requests/10

In source package cdebconf, file src/modules/frontend/gtk/progress.c,
function create_progress_label(), the information text is displayed
below the progress bar with a GTKentry widget type which is a single
line text entry widget according to
<https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.Entry.html>. The text is not really
truncated, you can drag and scroll it with the mouse.

I guess that in order to wrap, the information text should be displayed
with a different widget type which supports multiline text.

Hi,

Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-04-21):

Let's not change anything there at this stage either. Rendering has been
a huge problem in the past, let's not take any risks for a problem that
affects I think a single screen, and for which documentation exists
anyway.



Cheers,