From 8134d06d328ffbb0416eeddddb1abb72d12916ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "louiz@4325f9fc-e183-4c21-96ce-0ab188b42d13"
 <louiz@4325f9fc-e183-4c21-96ce-0ab188b42d13>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:54:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #1679

---
 src/window.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/window.py b/src/window.py
index 3419ae2c..a0b58cfd 100644
--- a/src/window.py
+++ b/src/window.py
@@ -129,8 +129,12 @@ class Topic(Win):
         self.win.erase()
         if not jid:
             try:
-                self.win.addnstr(0, 0, topic + " "*(self.width-len(topic)), self.width
-                                 , curses.color_pair(1))
+                self.win.addstr(0, 0, topic, curses.color_pair(1))
+                while True:
+                    try:
+                        self.win.addch(' ', curses.color_pair(1))
+                    except:
+                        break
             except:
                 pass
         elif jid: