https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418157
Bug ID: 418157
Summary: Drop-Down-Menus Truncate and Elipsify Unnecessarily
Product: Plasma Workspace Wallpapers
Version: 5.16.5
Platform: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: launch...@startport.com
Target Milestone: ---
The controls for configuring wallpaper remain the same size even when the
window is maximized. They have no ability to scale to accommodate larger
font-sizes set by the KDE user. The main issue is how larger fonts appear
within drop-down-menus, as shown here:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0EKN.png
Notice all the wasted available horizontal space that the controls are
incapable of utilizing (emphasized with red arrows). Notice that items in the
drop-down menu are truncated and elipsified.
Elipsification should be a last resort when dealing with larger font-sizes. Why
must the drop-down menu's selections be the exact same size as the drop-down
menu? They should be as wide as necessary to avoid truncation instead. When the
drop-down is selected, those items should not be truncated and elipsified.
There is plenty of space available to showcase those phrases without any
truncation. To often, with these inflexible drop-down controls, too much gets
truncated; so much that you can even guess what the completion of the phrase
is.
I don't know where you're getting these drop-down-menu controls, but they're
very inflexible.
To reproduce, simply increase the desktop's font sizes to larger than 10pt
(which is a very small default in my opinion). At the very least, the
developers should choose larger font-sizes (than the default) while they're
working on these controls. So, they can become aware of how poorly these
drop-down-controls deal with larger font-sizes set by the KDE user. The larger
the font used, the more ridiculous these unnecessary truncation become.
Look at the drop-down-controls that appear on websites, they never truncate
long phrases; the drop-down becomes as wide as is necessary to showcase each
selection without truncation. That's the way these drop-downs should work too.
Also, truncation is unavoidable, hovering you mouse over that selection should
produce a tool tip that displays that selection in its non-truncated entirety.
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