Bug 508597

Summary: The width for the Left Menu in the Discover Store is too small
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Shaun Roselt <shaunroselt>
Component: discoverAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: aleixpol, kdedev
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: CachyOS   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: The width for the Left Menu in the Discover Store is too small

Description Shaun Roselt 2025-08-22 12:06:26 UTC
Created attachment 184344 [details]
The width for the Left Menu in the Discover Store is too small

SUMMARY

The width for the Left Menu in the Discover Store is too small when you set your scale to 50% and font size to 23pt.

It's cutting off many of the text. The width should be increased.

See attached screenshot.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Plug in a 1080p 27" Monitor
2.  Set Scale to 50%
3.  Set Font Size to 23pt
4. Open Discover
5. Look at the left menu width. The text isn't fitting in it.

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Shaun Roselt 2025-08-22 12:07:07 UTC
I'm not seeing how to edit my post. So here's my missing system info:

Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.16.2-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 2 TraceyC 2025-08-25 23:02:29 UTC
This is the same issue as bug 508595. When applying 16 point size or greater, the System Settings - font page has a warning at this stage "Very large fonts may produce odd looking results. Instead of using a very large font size, consider adjusting the global screen scale". This is, unfortunately, a limitation of the window manager code.

We discovered that Adjust All Fonts doesn't show the warning, bug 508738 has been filed for that.