Bug 388658

Summary:	Usability: While debugging the variable view loses the user defined column width settings when context changes or when we click on any varible in the variables window
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Claudio Henrique Fortes Felix <felix.claudio>
Component:	CPP Debugger	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	eido79, igorkuo, niko.sams
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.7.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://commits.kde.org/kdevelop/7ff8372fa576e3cc9ecabc84c789720c2662a90d	Version Fixed/Implemented In:	5.11.230400
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Description Claudio Henrique Fortes Felix 2018-01-07 19:48:44 UTC

I'm heavily using kdevelop for developing and debugging in C and I like it a lot... thanks for the great job you developers have done! There's an annoyance though that I think could be easily fixable:

When I'm debugging code and local context changes from a function to another, the columns in the variable view are reset to their default positions (columns "Name", "Value" and "Type" are brought close together to the left). This is a bit annoying, since I have to regrow the "Value" column all the time to view a long line I have to watch while context changes.

This "column width reset" also happens every time we click on any watched variable in this window.

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2022-11-10 22:33:13 UTC

Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-25 05:21:05 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-10 05:17:49 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
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Comment 4 Emilio Bova 2022-12-23 09:40:45 UTC

The automatic resize behavior has been made configurable with commit https://commits.kde.org/kdevelop/7ff8372fa576e3cc9ecabc84c789720c2662a90d .
Does that fix your issue?

Comment 5 Igor Kushnir 2022-12-23 14:38:13 UTC

> When I'm debugging code and local context changes from a function to another, the columns in the variable view are reset to their default positions (columns "Name", "Value" and "Type" are brought close together to the left).
Neither I nor Emilio Bova could reproduce this part of the bug report in KDevelop master, even in a several-months-old version. Either it has been fixed at some point or we need more information to reproduce.

> This "column width reset" also happens every time we click on any watched variable in this window.
The commit Emilio Bova referenced fixes this second part of the bug report.