From d926857355adf2b134fd8892b0a009ae90416e02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:27:06 +0000
Subject: Limit length of error messages in the job manager view.

---
 src/lib/job.cc | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/job.cc b/src/lib/job.cc
index 5b0b9c604..e11efa407 100644
--- a/src/lib/job.cc
+++ b/src/lib/job.cc
@@ -325,7 +325,11 @@ Job::status () const
 	} else if (finished_ok ()) {
 		s << String::compose (_("OK (ran for %1)"), seconds_to_hms (_ran_for));
 	} else if (finished_in_error ()) {
-		s << String::compose (_("Error (%1)"), error_summary());
+		string es = error_summary ();
+		if (es.length() > 25) {
+			es = es.substr (0, 25) + "...";
+		}
+		s << String::compose (_("Error (%1)"), es);
 	} else if (finished_cancelled ()) {
 		s << _("Cancelled");
 	}
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