Bug 493784

Summary:	panel edit made looks crammed because of long German words and scaling
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	renner0
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dev+kde, nate, niccolo.venerandi, niccolo
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.1.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	6.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	showing panel edit mode in german

Description renner0 2024-09-28 14:21:01 UTC

Created attachment 174171 [details]
showing panel edit mode in german

SUMMARY
the panel edit mode looks very crammed especially on a 13 inch 3:2 screen(2256x1504) like the framework laptops with 175% scaling

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. set language to german (or any other language with very long words)
2. open panel edit mode by right-clicking on it


OBSERVED RESULT
panel edit mode looks very crammed

EXPECTED RESULT
resize the edit window when it exceeds a certain size/ratio of the screen
use the space in the top right corner

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Aurora 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
as https://l10n.kde.org/docs/translation-howto/gui-peculiarities.html states:

"One problem which languages with longer than average words (German, for example, is notorious here) sometimes encounter is dialog boxes which are too small, cutting off or cramming together translated text. This is one of the things that can only be determined for sure by checking the translations in the compiled program. The obvious, but always temporary, solution is to "keep it short." You would basically do this if there were no more time to pursue the proper solution, namely contacting the author of the program so that he/she can adjust the geometry of the offending boxes. In any case, an email describing the problem should be sent to the author or even better create a new bug report in KDE Bugs."

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-09-30 19:02:22 UTC

I'd say this is the opposite of crammed: the long text produces excessive whitespace!

One idea I've been playing with here is to combine both of the "Add [thing]" buttons into a single "Add" button that shows a dropdown menu. That would pretty much fix this.

In the meantime, I'm sending this to the German translation team to see if it's possible to reduce the length of these labels at all.

Comment 2 Unknown 2024-10-30 18:51:24 UTC

SVN commit 1694003 by jobermayr:

de update plasma_shell_org.kde.plasma.desktop.po
Review D30228

 M  +14 -14    plasma_shell_org.kde.plasma.desktop.po  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1694003

Comment 3 Johannes Obermayr 2024-10-30 19:02:35 UTC

Reassign to plasmashell for fixing also root.

Comment 4 Niccolò Venerandi 2025-09-23 11:38:56 UTC

This was fixed in latest version of KDE Plasma.