Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources The height of the lyrics applet in the context view is fixed even if it is the only applet in the view. This doesn't fit very well the use case of differents activities in the context view where i'd like to put the lyrics applet alone in one activity to see all the text of a song without having to scroll. the lyrics applet should expand vertically to get the maximum size possible.
reclassifying as a bug as it is has bad UI mojo
it's on my list, but it's a bit tricky to do right. also it's lower priority than switching to kde 4.2 libplasma, which is lower on my list than getting amarok to open without crashing.
Amarok plasmoids are laid out from the top to bottom in the layout. However, they are not resizable. It is not a big problem with their width as they auto fit horizontal space available, but the situation is more problematic with the height. E.g. lyrics plasmoid has predefined height (which could be reduced if plasmoids were resizeable) and hence "Current Track" and "Lyrics" plasmoids no longer fit to my Amarok window vertically. That's annoying as Lyrics horizontal scrollbar gets hidden behind "plasmabar", I also cannot see whole lyrics text because it gets chopped off by Amarok "plasmabar" and bottom limits of the Amarok middle pane. What is more, lyrics plasmoid has no clue that parts of its window are chopped off. As a result, I cannot see both current track and lyrics unless I enlarge amarok which I don't want to do. It is major UI deficiency. P.S. Lyrics plasmoid is just an example. The same can be said about "Services" or "Wikipedia" plasmoids or any other widget.
yes, i did not belittle the importance of the problem. however, that does not make it magically easier to fix. (since my last comment, the crash and switch to lib-plasma are no longer issues).
Good to see someone already reported this :)
In Amarok 2.1 on gentoo (~amd64) there is a similiar problem with the lyrics applet. If I have the "current track widget", the "albums widget" and the lyrics widget active, the lyrics widget does not resize to make all the widgets fit onto my screen. If the lyrics widget is placed at the lower-most part of the screen I cannot see half of the lyrics, because the widget is not resized. Furthermore I cannot scroll down to see the full widget because it seems the widget area is not scrollable. I did not want to file a new bug for this, because this problem fits best with this bug because it is resize-related. If this bug is the right place for my problem I will add a screenshot.
Sorry, the applet area _is_ scrollable, but nevertheless it would be nize to make the lyrics applet resizeable in order to avoid scrolling if just a few widgets are active.
This is fixed in SVN and is going to surface in the 2.1.1 release :) Applets like Wikipedia and Lyrics are now automatically resizing to make use of all available space.