The reason for this what not what I expected... The snap descriptions contain carriage return characters (\r). GNOME Software replaces all the newline characters (\n) with spaces, but the carriage returns remain.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702539 Title: Snap packages have too big descriptions in search result list Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Snap packages have too big descriptions in search result list. Please check out the screenshot. System: Ubuntu 17.10 amd64 daily build 29.06.17 (updated) gnome-software 3.24.3 Also 17.04 has same issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1702539/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp