[Bug 942539] Re: Ubiquity desktop icon text looks messy

[James Hunt]

Nautilus seems to be considering the period as a sentence end and
therefore a legitimate place to wrap the text. However, that is wrong as
there is no space following the period.

Note that the '\n' escape sequence _is_ supported:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s03.html

This is a hack, but note that it is possible to fool the wrapping code
by using a non-ASCII period (such as 'middle-dot' ('·' (0x00B7)),
however that does look a little strange :)

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Title:
  Ubiquity desktop icon text looks messy

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  On a live CD/USB of Ubuntu the icon for Ubiquity looks like this:-

  "Install Ubuntu 12.
              04 LTS"

  (with the 04 LTS on the second line, and centred).

  It would look more pretty like this:-

  "Install Ubuntu
      12.04 LTS"

  Can we add a soft carriage return in there, or some other way to make
  it look less disjointed?

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