Subject: [Bug 45693] Lines from text in description / comments often broken

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:14:51 +0000

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45693

--- Comment #8 from Tollef Fog Heen <[email-masked]> 2012-02-11 00:14:51 UTC ---
While your comments are useful, we're not going to customise bugzilla to that level, so if you have the interest, please do take the discussion upstream and
I'll be happy to flip a configuration switch once that is a supported configuration from upstream.

In the mean time, I can of course revert the 80 → 160 column change, it's not like you can please everybody. :-)

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:36:00 +0000

--- Comment #5 from Lionel Elie Mamane <[email-masked]> 2012-02-10 23:36:00 PST ---
I wonder if the cure is not worse than the ailment...

Setting the wrap to 160 columns in turn makes the very same problem of "ugly / hard to read text" for people whose web browser or email client displays less...
Such as e.g. 150 columns: either they have to scroll horizontally, or their MUA/WebBrowser will wrap again, and because bugzilla displays/sends things
*hard*wrapped, they get the same 'zig-zag' effect.

I think that deeply down, the (only?) true correct way to fix this issue is to leave wrapping up to the display engine... That is the web browser or Mail User
Agent, as the case may be. They know how large the display window is, they know how much text fits in it, they should do the wrapping.

So, IMHO bugzilla should:

1) Not wrap the text at all.
2) In HTML not set the "white-space: pre-wrap;" CSS property.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:39:34 +0000

--- Comment #6 from Lionel Elie Mamane <[email-masked]> 2012-02-10 23:39:34 PST ---
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:42:26 +0000

--- Comment #7 from Lionel Elie Mamane <[email-masked]> 2012-02-10 23:42:26 PST ---
Created attachment 56894
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