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[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:03:29PM +0100, Julian Edwards wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 September 2009 17:14:51 Curtis Hovey wrote:
> > >         * The font for the files is too big, which leads to them being
> > >           super-truncated. I think the middle of the filename could be
> > >           truncated when too long (Little_[...]_3.0.tgz).
> > 
> > I saw Julian working on this. I want to make this happen for all uses of
> > this portlet. yes, the font is too big.
> 
> Actually I cheated, it was a hard-coded string in a mock-up.  We've now 
> ditched that mock-up in favour of something else, so I'm not working on it.  

Well, it's pretty easy to build a formatter which truncates this way; I
could even help somebody do it if there's an interested hacker that is
game.
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