Vista - RuntimeType format uses excessively wide name column

System.RuntimeType allots 40 characters for the Name column width, with the
net effect of leaving only 20 columns for the BaseType, which is usually a
fully-qualified name. As a result, there is almost always a wide gap between
Name and BaseType, and BaseType is almost always truncated.

I believe Name should have only 20 columns, leaving 40 for the BaseType.
Running all Get-* commands and viewing their output with this change, I
found that only one object type returned - SessionStateCapacityVariable -
will be truncated. Only one BaseType,
System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemSecurity returned by Get-Acl, is
still truncated with the new column widths.

Alex, Good point. Please bug this. I can't say this will make it to V1, but
it's definitely worth considering. Thanks.
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Microsoft Corporation
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> System.RuntimeType allots 40 characters for the Name column width, with
> the net effect of leaving only 20 columns for the BaseType, which is
> usually a fully-qualified name. As a result, there is almost always a wide
> gap between Name and BaseType, and BaseType is almost always truncated.
>
> I believe Name should have only 20 columns, leaving 40 for the BaseType.
> Running all Get-* commands and viewing their output with this change, I
> found that only one object type returned - SessionStateCapacityVariable -
> will be truncated. Only one BaseType,
> System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemSecurity returned by Get-Acl, is
> still truncated with the new column widths.
>

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"Kevin Loo [MSFT]" <kevinloo@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Alex, Good point. Please bug this. I can't say this will make it to V1,
> but it's definitely worth considering. Thanks.
> --
> Kevin Loo [MSFT]
> Windows PowerShell Development
> Microsoft Corporation
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Alex K. Angelopoulos [MVP]" <a k a @ m v p s . o r g>
> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:ue4A310fGHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> System.RuntimeType allots 40 characters for the Name column width, with
>> the net effect of leaving only 20 columns for the BaseType, which is
>> usually a fully-qualified name. As a result, there is almost always a
>> wide gap between Name and BaseType, and BaseType is almost always
>> truncated.
>>
>> I believe Name should have only 20 columns, leaving 40 for the BaseType.
>> Running all Get-* commands and viewing their output with this change, I
>> found that only one object type returned - SessionStateCapacityVariable -
>> will be truncated. Only one BaseType,
>> System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemSecurity returned by Get-Acl, is
>> still truncated with the new column widths.
>>
>
>