Bug 390266

Summary:	Krunner window width should be adjustible
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	Lukas Ba. <kdeu>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alexander.lohnau, dashonwwIII, epost.kde, jlp, kaue.sena, kishore96, mcpain, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Lukas Ba. 2018-02-11 13:36:19 UTC

Krunner cuts off the text of elements shown in the results list if their text is too long. At the same time the krunner window is smaller than the screen size allows. Increasing the krunner window width makes more effective use of the available screen real estate, shows more text, making it easier to identify the correct result.

The krunner window width should be a percentage of the screen size close to 100%. Since krunner appears on top of other Windows and disappears after you stop using it, it can take as much screen space as it wants.

As a workaround i have increased the krunner window width using a window rule with much success.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-02-12 22:15:30 UTC

People already complain that panels and menus in Plasma are too big and take up too much of their screen. Maybe we could make KRunner's width adjustable, within sane minimum and maximum values.

Comment 2 Lukas Ba. 2018-02-13 11:58:14 UTC

Yes, adjustable width is better than changing the default. Although this feature will probably take a lot longer to complete than just changing the default width number.
Searching for bugs there don't seem to be any bug reports complaining that specifically krunner is too large. Since krunner is not constantly visible it doesnt really take away from your screen space, unlike the taskbar.

Comment 3 Oleg Solovyov 2018-07-17 14:16:10 UTC

Would you prefer stretching KRunner window or word wrapping?

Comment 4 Øystein Steffensen-Alværvik 2019-10-13 08:56:15 UTC

Is there a reason that the search widget by default is wider than KRunner?

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2019-10-13 14:15:12 UTC

Probably not. :)

Comment 6 Øystein Steffensen-Alværvik 2019-10-13 18:37:39 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5)
> Probably not. :)

Well, it's convenient. :-) Now I can search for a document and see the full title.

Comment 7 Dashon 2021-03-26 23:10:10 UTC

I'm also intrested in an adjustable width. I tried playing around with QT_SCALE_FACTOR, but while it makes things bigger. It doesn't solve the cutoff issue.

Comment 8 Alexander Lohnau 2021-03-27 15:14:03 UTC

As a workaround you could edit /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/runcommand/RunCommand.qml line 97 and increase the Layout.minimumWidth and Layout.maximumWidth factors.

Comment 9 Dashon 2021-03-27 22:28:23 UTC

(In reply to Alexander Lohnau from comment #8)
> As a workaround you could edit
> /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/runcommand/
> RunCommand.qml line 97 and increase the Layout.minimumWidth and
> Layout.maximumWidth factors.

Thanks. I was actually looking for somethinike this, but I was playing around with the wrong files.