Version: (using KDE 4.2.0) Compiler: gcc 4.3.2 OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Placing an tabbar in a side panel makes it unusable as only a couple of letters are visible (unless the side panel is very wide). A similar thing happens to the taskbar. To solve this, the text should be vertical when the width of the side panel is small. As an intermediate step, text in the activity
should wrap (as in the taskbar) (sorry about the split, it didn't submit properly using Arora)
I can confirm this in Kubuntu 10.10 (amd64) KDE 4.5.2. Only the first couple of letters are visible when the panel is located at the side of the screen. Text needs orientating to make it visible; preferably if panel is on left text would run bottom to top, if panel on right text would run top to bottom.
"preferably if panel is on left text would run bottom to top, if panel on right text would run top to bottom". This is a cultural thing. In Germany, for example, all vertical texts run upwards, independently of whether it's on a left or right edge of a display. (cf. text on a book spine)
Hello! This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham