Bug 33613 - konqueror preferences dialog unusable because of extreme width (>1024)
Summary: konqueror preferences dialog unusable because of extreme width (>1024)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kcontrol
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: kcmkonq (show other bugs)
Version: CVS
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2001-10-12 06:33 UTC by Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
Modified: 2007-11-28 07:00 UTC (History)
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Description Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2001-10-12 06:22:23 UTC
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           konqueror
Version:           Unbekannt (using KDE 2.2.1 )
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc 2.95.3
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.11
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

Hi my monitor just died yesterday soi I am using an old 14" screen with 8000x600 size. And I just noted that the konqueror preferences dialog has a false width. KDE was always usable at 800x600 screen size. But the konqueror setuip dialog (started from the menu) is much wider than 800. And there is absolutly no need to be that wide at least not here with German translation. All widgets would fit in 500.

The reason could be the length of the homepage URL field widget but I doubt it. 

Would be great if this could be fixed for 2.2.2

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
(Called from KBugReport dialog. Fields Compiler manually changed)
Comment 1 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2002-09-13 20:09:36 UTC
Still too wide in KDE-3.1b1 (at least with German translations). 
Comment 2 Maksim Orlovich 2003-01-06 21:01:55 UTC
Hmm, looks fine in English here with 3.1rc6. Moritz, is it still a problem for you with 
.de? 
Comment 3 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2003-01-07 01:56:10 UTC
I get the following size with German translations: 
 
xwininfo: Window id: 0x2400002 "Einstellungen - KDE-Kontrollbereich" 
 
  Width: 1195 
  Height: 575 
  Depth: 24 
  Corners:  +133+205  -72+205  -72-270  +133-270 
  -geometry 1195x575-68+176 
 
The size is horrible and well above the 800 allowed even though I use small fonts. 
Comment 4 Timo A. Hummel 2003-01-29 20:08:26 UTC
Usually, you should be able to resize the dialog. If it is smaller than the
contents, you should see scoll bars. Just make sure you use a KDE 3.x version :)

Does that work?

Timo
Comment 5 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2003-01-29 20:14:12 UTC
No, it does not work with KDE-3.1 (SuSE rpms), the size is as always much too wide 
for the content, using the German translation. The dialog can not be resized at all. 
Comment 6 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2003-06-08 17:48:33 UTC
Still present in KDE-CVS-2003-6-3. Could this be a bug with translations? 
Comment 7 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2003-08-01 11:36:31 UTC
Is noone seeing this but me? It looks like crap and is still not fixed. I have seen this on all machines 
(Debian and SuSE). Situation unchanged in KDE-CVS 2003-07-29 
Comment 8 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2003-08-01 11:42:03 UTC
OK, I noticed why this bug got no attention. The bug is only present in the configuration menu from 
Konqueror, not in the kcm modules. It is still looking very bad, though. Maybe some Konqueror 
developer can fix it? 
Comment 9 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2003-09-09 08:35:20 UTC
Still not fixed. The German configure dialog of konqueror sucks donkey balls. This looks horrible 
and will immediately disqualify konqueror for normal end users. 
Comment 10 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2003-10-18 13:10:48 UTC
Why was this bug moved to kcontrol? I mean the konqueror preferences dialog you get from the konqueror menue, not the (well-behaved) kcontrol module. Are you sure, kcontrol is the source of this bug? I don't think so....
Comment 11 Stephan Kulow 2003-10-18 16:33:28 UTC
it's the same dialog. and it's kcmkonq
Comment 12 Moritz Moeller-Herrmann 2004-01-05 16:29:53 UTC
The minimum width for this dialog is over 1024 bytes in my KDE-3.2cvs!!!!
I have locale set to German.

This looks like shit. Could someone have a look? I guess it is just one kcmmodule which reserves too much space.
Comment 13 Matthias Wieser 2005-02-11 13:41:07 UTC
I can confirm that the bug still exists in KDE 3.4 Beta 2.
(German Locals + Verdana 10pt + 14" TFT)
The dialogs are to wide - both when accessing the dialog through Kcontrol and when accessing the dialog directly from Konqueror. 

Especially the "Stylesheet" dialog is to wide for 1024x768.
Additionally the "Web Shortcuts" dialog gets too wide because the "default search engine"-drop down box is as wide as the string "Great Dictionary of the Catalan language (GRan Enciclopedia Catalana)". Please don't force the users to use 10pt Arial Narrow! ;-)

The "file association" dialog is a bit wide, too.
Comment 14 Matthias Wieser 2005-03-03 23:05:15 UTC
Problem still exists in KDE 3.4rc1

Funny:
When the bug was opened, the reporter had written:
      "Would be great if this could be fixed for 2.2.2"
Comment 15 FiNeX 2007-11-15 17:37:54 UTC
The bug is still present even in KDE4 SVN Revision 737080.
Just reported this: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152374
Comment 16 FiNeX 2007-11-15 17:39:23 UTC
In KDE 3.5.8 the bug is fixed. This issue should be closed and the http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152374 should be fixed.
Comment 17 George Goldberg 2007-11-28 07:00:34 UTC
Closing as per Comment #16.