Bug 489767

Summary: System monitor 'Text only' display cuts text and no longer resizes
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Will <molloywillmolloy>
Component: System MonitorAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: ahiemstra, nate, notmart
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Observed 'text only' system monitor, Plasma 6.1
Expected 'text only' system monitors (Plasma 6.0)
Observed 'text only' system monitors (Plasma 6.1)

Description Will 2024-07-05 05:06:03 UTC
Created attachment 171394 [details]
Observed 'text only' system monitor, Plasma 6.1

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SUMMARY
The 'Text only' monitors cut short and no longer resize the text.
Was fine on Plasma 6, now a problem with 6.1.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add system monitor widget to taskbar panel
2. Set to text only
3. Resize the bar panel: observe it keeps the text at smallest size
4. Set long text, e.g. 'Download': observe it cuts the text

OBSERVED RESULT
Text is cut short, and text doesn't resize.

EXPECTED RESULT
Text isn't cut short, and text resizes with the bar size.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Fedora 40, KDE Plasma 6.1.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Another issue: when you add more than one 'Text only' monitor, it stacks them vertically, rather than horizontally on the bar. (This was always the case, i.e. with Plasma 6.0 too.) Workaround is to create multiple system monitor widgets.
Comment 1 Will 2024-07-05 05:07:14 UTC
Created attachment 171395 [details]
Expected 'text only' system monitors (Plasma 6.0)
Comment 2 Will 2024-07-05 05:12:26 UTC
Created attachment 171396 [details]
Observed 'text only' system monitors (Plasma 6.1)

With system tray, so you can more clearly see it's not resizing.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-07-27 22:55:03 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 488816 ***