Bug 418151

Summary: Auto-Size Left Pane Wider Than Longest Text
Product: [Applications] kinfocenter Reporter: launchpad
Component: KInfoCenter ViewerAssignee: David Hubner <hubn3rd>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: plasma-bugs, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.16.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description launchpad 2020-02-24 20:03:12 UTC
When kinfocenter launches, the left page is too narrow to display the entirety of all the phrases listed in its left pane. The user can drag the left pane wider, but the very next time kinfocenter is launched, it resorts back to a left-pane-width that's more narrow than the phrases it contains.

Watch this Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNWBFx1NKY

Keeping in mind, that KDE users can set their font-sizes to be much larger than the 10pt font you get from a fresh installation of Kubuntu. So, the larger the font-size-setting, the more truncation of letters that result from this left pane being too narrow.

Therefore, I propose that each time kinfocenter launches, it should take the user's font-size into consideration, and auto-size the left pane to a size that's wide enough to show all phrases in their entirety.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: kinfocenter 4:5.16.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Feb 24 13:35:31 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-03 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kinfocenter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Comment 1 launchpad 2020-02-24 20:05:07 UTC
Downstream Bug Report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kinfocenter/+bug/1864540
Comment 2 Harald Sitter 2020-02-25 09:05:40 UTC
5.19 will use the systemsettings shell to render kinfocenter and as such shouldn't have the issue as settings look ok in the beginning of that video.