On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:25:10PM -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote: > 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. That might be a bit of an exagerration, no? > 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). Hey, it's pretty straighforward code in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/systemctl/systemctl.c#n314. If you can design a better way to split available columns, go for it. Zbyszek -- they are not broken. they are refucktored -- alxchk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
