Bug 202912

Summary: pager's default aspect ratio is wrong
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Michal Svoboda <kde>
Component: widget-pagerAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: avrunin, finex, g111, kde, laidig, zorael
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Michal Svoboda 2009-08-07 09:35:32 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux

When I place a pager applet on the desktop, with 4x4 desktop layout, the pager is not roughly rectangular, but has some slack space (see fig. 1). Since the resize button preserves ratio unless ctrl is pressed, this is a highly unintuitive thing.

Fig. 1:

,----------------.
|o o o o         |
|o o o o       <---- slack space
|o o o o         |
|o o o o  <--------- 4x4 desktop miniatures
`----------------'
Comment 1 George Avrunin 2009-09-02 01:40:41 UTC
I encountered this, too, with a 4x3 layout.  And being a recent immigrant from fvwm2, I didn't know about using ctrl with the resizer to get back the right apsect ratio until I read the report from Michal Svoboda above.  He's right that this aspect ratio problem is "a highly unintuitive thing".

I'm running 4.3 on Fedora 11.
Comment 2 JR 2009-11-15 14:48:50 UTC
Duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214647?

Did not know about the ctrl+resize thing before reading this report, so I'm happy I did.

Kubuntu 9.10, backported 4.3.3 packages.
Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-11-15 16:06:40 UTC
*** Bug 214647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Nicolas L. 2010-06-07 10:28:09 UTC
Do you reproduce with kde 4.4.4 or 4.5 beta ?
Comment 5 Michal Svoboda 2010-06-07 20:50:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Do you reproduce with kde 4.4.4 or 4.5 beta ?

Unfortunately I abandoned pursuing this issue already, but since the steps to reproduce are quite clear, feel free to try yourself.
Comment 6 Beat Wolf 2010-06-07 21:54:49 UTC
SVN commit 1135634 by beatwolf:

allow free resizing of the pager
BUG:202912



 M  +1 -0      pager.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1135634