Version: 0.50.80 (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources In Kontact's preferences I have it set to truncate contact's name to 30 characters. This is done fine in the message headers in the contact window, however, if the contact's changes status, then the contact's name in the message announcing this in the chat window, is not trucated, resulting in the text overlapping with the date and time. I am using the "Clear" chat window style. Related to that, overlapping text should never happen even if user's don't have name truncation enabled. It makes no sense and looks bad.
The same problem happens with the nicknames as shown in the tab pages of the chat window, they are also not trucated, resulting in almos unusable tabs with users with long nicknames
Got a patch locally, will tweak it a bit and commit in the next days. Can you attach a screenshot showing the overlapping of text with date and time? Might as well be caused by the chat style / html rendering.
SVN commit 825273 by nienhueser: Truncate contact names also in event messages and captions if activated in user preferences. BUG: 163475 M +22 -12 chatmessagepart.cpp M +16 -8 chatmessagepart.h M +25 -52 chatview.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=825273