On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Yes, this is still the case, that plain 'systemctl' truncates unit > names. It's a tough choice, but in this specific case it's hard to > find a format that would work without truncation. There are two fields > with potentially very long values (unit name and unit description). We > can let the second one flow in the right side, but if we left the first > one in full width, on normal terminal width of ~100 columns, even this > *first* column would not fit. And the truth is that the units which > are usually truncated are the device units (they tend to have the longest > names), and they are not the most interesting usually. So in this case > truncation makes it much nicer to look at the interesting .service > and .target units. Truncation has been removed from a few other places, > but in this case it just doesn't seem feasible. The "..." in the middle of the line makes the output completely unusable. On my current machine, I see 6 service units whose names are middle-truncated (it's not just device units). The problem is that there's no way to scroll or adjust the terminal size to get the full output. I would much rather have the description field completely omitted or at least extend off to the right (it's much less essential than the service name anyway). -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
