Bug 351827

Summary:	No way to see elided application names in Application Dashboard in full
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons	Reporter:	Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer>
Component:	Application Dashboard	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bob.mt.wya, bshah, disgruntled.mob, kde, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Thomas Pfeiffer 2015-08-26 20:33:37 UTC

When application names get too long in Application Dashboard, they get elided. There is no way to see their full name, which is problematic especially if two names only differ near their end.

Full application names should be shown on hover, either in a tooltip or by temporarily expanding the name of the application currently hovered over.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-08-26 20:54:11 UTC

Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible (not without making showTooltip publicly accessible from QML which I'm not sure we want) to use a single ToolTip item for multiple cells, like it does with the MouseArea.

Comment 2 BasioMeusPuga 2015-08-31 12:40:33 UTC

The same thing happens for filenames that show up with Desktop search. If you have a string that matches 2 similar filenames, there's no way of telling which one is the one you want because only the first several letters show up.

May I suggest that there be an option to show results as a horizontal list also? That'll take care of the attenuation without needing tooltips.

Comment 3 Eike Hein 2015-10-01 19:03:45 UTC

Patch incoming via https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125402/

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-07 16:43:48 UTC

There are tooltips now.