Bug 251283

Summary:	length of text of desktop icons cant be specified
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Christoph Thielecke <crissi99>
Component:	Containment	Assignee:	Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.12.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Christoph Thielecke 2010-09-15 10:48:22 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

The length of the text below the desktop icons cant be specified. This is bad because the text will be cut. The user should be able to choose the length for it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2013-04-19 00:45:11 UTC

I'm unsure which desktop icons you are referring to. 
Folderview or the desktop icon widgets?

If you are unsure, please attach a screenshot.

Comment 2 Christoph Thielecke 2013-04-19 07:58:38 UTC

The Icons inside folderview.

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2013-04-19 10:32:15 UTC

Moving to correct component

Comment 4 Ignat Semenov 2013-04-19 11:20:16 UTC

Confirmed, there is no such setting. The text rectangle width (and thus icon grid cell width) is hardcoded to be 15 letters wide or something like that.

However, I am unsure if this is going to be fixed - this may be just overly configurable. Maybe we simply increase the default text length.

However, how can you tell how long exactly is enough? Some users have 50-letter long icon names and may want that to be displayed fully.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:00:47 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham

Comment 6 Christoph Thielecke 2018-06-09 15:04:57 UTC

This still valid for plasmashell.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2020-01-13 05:34:46 UTC

In fact there are two such settings: "Label Width" (which I implemented in Plasma 4.15 IIRC) and "Text Lines." Together they implement the requested feature.