Bug 301675

Summary: Digital clock widget should have minimum size
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Janek Bevendorff <kde>
Component: widget-clockAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: gregor, stimur
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.9.90 Beta2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301674
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Bug Blocks: 301845    

Description Janek Bevendorff 2012-06-11 18:47:53 UTC 
The Digital Clock widget can be scaled down until it nearly disappears.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add the Digital Clock widget to your desktop
2. Scale it down as far as possible
Actual Results:  
There is no scale limitation.

Expected Results:  
Widget should have a sensible minimum size.
Comment 1 stimur 2012-06-28 14:59:46 UTC 
Also,
there is not way to fix the size of the applet or font used in it
resizing of the panel can result of unreadable or inconvenient font size.
like here: http://flic.kr/p/cmMFxE
Comment 2 stimur 2012-06-28 15:08:13 UTC 
The previos comment is also describe in Debian bug #679294 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679294)

Package: kde-plasma-desktop
Version: 5:76
Severity: normal

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-=============
kde-runtime (>= 4:4.7.4) | 4:4.8.4-1
plasma-desktop (>= 4:4.7.4) | 4:4.8.4-2
kde-workspace (>= 4:4.7.4) | 4:4.8.4-2
kde-baseapps (>= 4:4.7.4) | 4:4.8.4-1
udisks | 1.0.4-6
upower | 0.9.16-3

Recommends (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-=============
kdm (>= 4:4.7.4) | 4:4.8.4-2
xserver-xorg | 1:7.6+13
Comment 3 stimur 2012-06-28 15:09:23 UTC 
something is wrong with the system it switches me to the next bug each time I submit additional comment.
Comment 4 Gregor Tätzner 2012-08-25 15:05:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. Add the Digital Clock widget to your desktop
> 2. Scale it down as far as possible
> Actual Results:  
> There is no scale limitation.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Widget should have a sensible minimum size.
What is a sensible minimum size? Does the widget disappear from the desktop, when you scale it down?
Comment 5 Janek Bevendorff 2012-08-25 15:44:54 UTC 
Not completely, but almost, yes. Why don't you just try it?
A sensible minimum size is a size at which the widget is still usable 
and doesn't break (i.e. it must still look good).
Currently it breaks horribly and isn't usable at all at its minimum 
size.
Comment 6 Gregor Tätzner 2012-08-25 15:58:30 UTC 
even at minimum size the time and date is still readable. I don't see the problem.
Comment 7 Janek Bevendorff 2012-08-25 16:01:08 UTC 
Sorry, no. The minimum size is not working at all. The time is still readable, yes, but the rest breaks completely.
This has to be fixed and it can be done withing minutes. Reopening.
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:39:46 UTC 
Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham