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Created attachment 113191 [details] Screen shot. Description and comments fields are not stretched to browser width (see screen shot).
http://kenai.com/jira/browse/KENAI-3107
It is "fixed" in the sense that the pink comment area will stretch according to the width of the comment text in the database. Unfortunately BZ seems to line-wrap any text you enter in the "Additional Comments" or "Description" fields at the time you enter it, thus irretrievably losing information about whether you actually typed ENTER (hard break) or just exceeded a certain number of characters in the line (soft break). So for example in this bug we see +----------------------------------------------------------+ |Description ... not stretched to browser width (see screen| |shot). | +----------------------------------------------------------+ because the database contains "Description ... not stretched to browser width (see screen\nshot)." whereas we would rather have the database contain the text the user actually entered, presumably "Description ... not stretched to browser width (see screen shot)." to be wrapped as needed according to the actual dimensions of the browser when viewed: +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Description ... not stretched to browser width (see screen shot).| +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ This is bad because it means the read-only text will generally not really use available screen space - the only exception is if you enter some very long text with no spaces in it, such as a stack trace line. Worse, there is no way to retroactively fix it for issues which have already been entered.
*** Bug 176249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As in comment #2 I do not think this is really fixed.