I added a little cosmetic solution since i've already made and submitted a patch that fixes it.

Solution #12: Make the extended description less command-line like

Posted on 2010-01-30 18:03 UTC by David Falkayn.

Summary: This is a purely cosmetic change that is already implemented: it just needs to be included by the App Manager maintainers. It flows the extended description text to fill the window.

I made a very simple patch for App Manager a while ago that improves the "nicefy" function that prepares a package's extended description for display. This is what the user sees when they ask to see details about a package.

Currently, the text is fixed-width. If the package's extended description has lines that are too long, they will wrap to the next line and leave an ugly linebreak midway through the next line.

My patch flows the text so that it fills the window properly, looking more like a GUI should and less like a nasty UNIX CLI-cum-GUI wrapper.

Details here: Extended description panel doesn't flow text.