Cat broke UI by holding down space

[kpcyrd]

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Bug Description

My cat sat on the keyboard holding down the space key and I noticed this breaks the UI (see attached screenshot).

Steps to Reproduce

1. open a chat
2. click into the "send a message" box
3. hold down space

Actual Result:

The input field keeps growing to the right, breaking the UI

Expected Result:

Some kind of line break probably

Screenshots

Platform Info

Signal Version: v5.1.0

Operating System: Arch Linux

[hiqua]

I can reproduce this on Debian.

To be clear, it's not really about keeping on pressing the keyboard, it's just about trying to send a message with a lot of spaces such as:

So copy-pasting this snippet should be enough.

I guess it's because Signal tries to soft-break the lines around word, but of course it fails for such weird messages. If it doesn't find a proper place to break the line, it should still break it after a certain limit rather than overflowing.

[ghost]

"The kot is a QA engineer" someone said on a Discord

[RoverBot-Dev]

"The kot is a QA engineer" someone said on a Discord

helo dev khnonk

[GabLeRoux]

Steps to reproduce:

[mittwinter]

Verison 5.0.0 on Gentoo Linux is not affected, in case this helps to isolate the issue.

[adarsh1001]

Able to reproduce this bug on v5.2.1 (Ubuntu).

[SteveHere]

Verison 5.0.0 on Gentoo Linux is not affected, in case this helps to isolate the issue.

This seems to involve a problem with Debian; Might need someone not on a Debian-based system to reproduce this result. 😕

[rizerphe]

OP is using arch ¯\(ツ)/¯

[AmadeusMop]

Able to reproduce this bug on v5.2.1, Windows 10 19042.985, gray domestic mediumhair.
Also tried with the tortoiseshell, but could not reproduce because she wouldn't sit still.

[techhotspot]

Dogs work, can reproduce, 22.5 pound English cocker though apparently my keyboard doesn’t taste good

[alex-moch]

Verison 5.0.0 on Gentoo Linux is not affected, in case this helps to isolate the issue.

I can verify that version 5.0.0 on Gentoo Linux is not affected. However, I can reproduce the issue with version 5.2.1.

[00p513-dev]

5.2.1 on fedora affected. Tested with a Shih Tzu, 24 cm, 3.5 kg and a Shiba Inu, 8kg, 40cm

[gunslingerfry]

Confirmed bug with bug on beta 5.3.0-beta.2
Running: Manjaro Ornara 21.0.5

Can also confirm bug does not repro bug on 5.0 or the older version of the beta that was labeled 1.39.5-beta1-3

[robinduerhager]

I cannot reproduce this issue on Windows 10 Pro Version 21H1 Build 19043.1348.
However, it breaks the flow of the stickers, microphone and plus icons for me 😅 .

[kpcyrd]

Closing, the original issues seems to be fixed. Thanks for the ping!