Bug 484508

Summary: Manual Text Display Font Size not being applied when applet is in panel
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Jahin Z. <contact>
Component: Digital Clock widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: miranda, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.0.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: The Digital Clock settings, set to its default settings.
The Digital Clock settings, but with Text display set to Manual, with a much larger font size, and a different font weight.

Description Jahin Z. 2024-03-26 09:23:01 UTC 
SUMMARY

When using a manual font size, the applet follows the font size parameter when it is free floating on the desktop, but when the applet is in a panel, the requested font size seemingly gets completely ignored, behaving identically to the Automatic text display setting.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Add a Digital Clock applet to a panel.
2. In the Digital Clock applet settings, switch the "Text display" setting to Manual.
3. Select "Choose style" and pick a different text size and font.
3. Apply the changes.

OBSERVED RESULT

The text size of the clock does not change, but the font does change. This issue holds for any given manual text size.

EXPECTED RESULT

The font size adjusts accordingly to the setting.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Fedora Linux 39
Kernel version: 6.7.9-200.fc39.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics platform: Wayland
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Comment 1 Jahin Z. 2024-03-26 09:26:45 UTC 
Created attachment 167783 [details]
The Digital Clock settings, set to its default settings.

The Digital Clock settings, set to its default settings.
Comment 2 Jahin Z. 2024-03-26 09:28:40 UTC 
Created attachment 167784 [details]
The Digital Clock settings, but with Text display set to Manual, with a much larger font size, and a different font weight.

The Digital Clock settings, but with Text display set to Manual, with a much larger font size, and a different font weight.

Note that, while the font weight has changed, the size remains the same.
Comment 3 Jahin Z. 2024-03-30 02:34:17 UTC 
UPDATE: I upgraded my system to Plasma 6 (by switching to Fedora 40 Beta), and the issue is still present.
Comment 4 Miranda 2024-04-07 20:12:04 UTC 
I think I'm experiencing the same bug.  But it's not that it's not being applied, it's that the font size is completely out of whack.  If I set it to manual and 24pt it is smaller than automatic mode, and not at all actually 24pt.  Also this is only happening in X11, if I set it to the crazy manual 24pt size to make it reasonably size (i.e. smaller than the default size) and then switch to a Wayland session the same manual settings make it microscopic and unreadable.
Comment 5 Miranda 2024-04-07 20:30:29 UTC 
Sorry I got that backwards, it gets tiny in X11.  But it's still true that the font size does change in Wayland, it doesn't completely ignore it. In order to make the manual font reasonably sized on Wayland you must set a crazy small size like 8pt. But if you switch to X11, it will be tiny and unreadable,  Setting a huge size like 24pt will make it reasonably sized in X11, but it Wayland it will be slightly bigger, like in manual mode.

In other words, it does change the size in Wayland, but only if you set the manual size to a ridiculously small pt size... and the manual font size setting has wildly different effects between X11 and Wayland.  Both are out of whack and wrong, but in different ways.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2024-08-16 17:05:40 UTC 
It's more of a maximum size, as the panel height may prohibit actually using the full height of the specified size. Obviously in that screenshot, there isn't actually room to display the text at 36pt.