Bug 273251

Summary: KDE System Settings extremely non-compact under some locales (at least for Norwegian Nynorsk)
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl>
Component: generalAssignee: System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: simonandric5
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: Screenshoft of System Settings in English
Screenshoft of System Settings in Norwegian Nynorsk

Description Karl Ove Hufthammer 2011-05-14 10:17:27 UTC
Version:           1.0 (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

This is a rather curious bug. The KDE System Settings is extremely non-compact under the Norwegian Nynorsk locale. With ‘non-compact’, I mean the there is very much space between each icon. I will attach two screenshots showing this.

One reason could be that the names of the various categories are longer in Norwegian Nynorsk, but they’re actually not much longer. In fact, all the names fit on two lines, while in English one of them uses three lines. And the long names, e.g., ‘Skrivebordseffektar’, have embedded soft hyphens in them, so KDE could easily break them over two lines (it doesn’t do so, though).

Do take a look at the screenshots. It’s clear that even with the current line breaking, the margin around each icon could easily be much reduced, as it is under the English locale.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to KDE System Settings → Locale.
2. Choose Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) as the top locale (make sure you have the KDE language files for this language installed first).
3. Close KDE System Settings.
4. Reopen KDE System Settings, so that the language switch is allowed to take effect.

Actual Results:  
There is huge margins around each category icon.

Expected Results:  
There should be normal margins around each category icon, as under the English locale.

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.37.6-0.5-default
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Karl Ove Hufthammer 2011-05-14 10:18:40 UTC
Created attachment 59985 [details]
Screenshoft of System Settings in English

Note the normal margins between each category icon.
Comment 2 Karl Ove Hufthammer 2011-05-14 10:19:35 UTC
Created attachment 59986 [details]
Screenshoft of System Settings in Norwegian Nynorsk

Note the huge margins between each category icon.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2011-05-14 11:37:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 233508 ***