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[Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:15:04 -0300
Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Erm, I got tempted, for fun.

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/264420/