Version: 2.0-SVN (using KDE 4.0.98) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: gcc 4.1.2 OS: Linux Hopefully this reproduces it reliably with a snapshot from yesterday: Have a track in your playlist with a very long artist title. here is one that triggers the bug: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman / Johannette Zomer en Bettina Pahn, sopraan. Bogna Bartosz, alt. Jörg Dürmüller, tenor. Klaus Mertens, bas. All in one artist tag. Double click on the track in the playlist when the window is of normal size. Amarok's main window will resize to an enormously long window (screenshot attached, although that shows only the length, not the content of the whole window). This window cannot be resized anymore. In addition, with compositing enabled, the screen turns black, similar to the problem described in #166831. Escape does not help here, however. Disabling compositing effects brings back the contents of the main Amarok window. The music plays properly.
Created attachment 26203 [details] screenshot of the resize bug
I can confirm this. Just happened to me as well. Technical note: we need to use QFontmetrics::elidedText() here.
SVN commit 840128 by hades: Fixed status bar limiting shrinking capacity of amarok main window. Patch by Daniel Molkentin <danimo@kde.org>. BUG: 166832 M +3 -0 ChangeLog M +1 -0 src/statusbar/StatusBar.cpp M +4 -1 src/statusbar/StatusBarBase.cpp M +2 -1 src/statusbar/StatusBarBase.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=840128