I fixed issue #38: remove the crappy URI text ellipsization that I di…

…d in Specto a while ago. The

reason? Because pango does that automagically! Please backport this fix to your branches if needed.

I also added launch.sh to circumvent the stupidness of GNOME's launchers.

data/doc/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2007-01-20 Jean-Francois Fortin
+    * use pango to ellipsize (truncate) the webpage URIs shown in the notifier window. Better results and less hacks.
+
+2007-01-05 Jean-Francois Fortin
+    * late happy new year, folks :)
+    * added back the launch.sh script. This is used only for those who do not want to install Specto and who face gnome's stupid launchers. Starting 
+"specto" directly still works though.
+
 2006-12-26 Wout Clymans
     * Export watches implemented
 

launch.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+cd `dirname $0`
+PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:src ./specto $@

spectlib/notifier.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     import gtk
     import gtk.glade
     import gobject
+    import pango
 except:
     pass
 
@@ -307,21 +308,9 @@ def show_watch_info(self, *args):
         if selected.type == 0:
             #get the info
             self.lblNameText.set_label(selected.name)
-
-            #Strip down the URI lenght to prevent messing up the user interface width
-            if len(selected.url_) >=45:
-                if "https://" in selected.url_:
-                    strippedurl = selected.url_[8:]
-                elif "http://" in selected.url_:
-                    strippedurl = selected.url_[7:]
-                elif "ftp://" in selected.url_:
-                    strippedurl = selected.url_[6:]
-
-                #We want maximum 45 characters, so let's just keep 20 from the start and end.
-                strippedurl = ( strippedurl[:15] + " ... " + strippedurl[-15:] )
-                self.lblLocationText.set_label(strippedurl)
-            else:#The URL is short enough, we keep it as is.
-                self.lblLocationText.set_label(selected.url_)
+
+            self.lblLocationText.set_label(selected.url_)
+            self.lblLocationText.set_ellipsize(pango.ELLIPSIZE_MIDDLE)#shorten the string in the middle if the URI is too long
 
             margin = float(selected.error_margin) * 100
             self.lblErrorMarginText.set_label(str(margin) + " %")