Version: (using KDE 4.2.3) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Sometimes the text of KDE widgets is truncated because there is not enough room. However, there is no indication that this is happening, and often it is not clear from the text that parts of it are missing.
Created attachment 33968 [details] Screenshot showing truncated text in Ark In this screenshot from Ark it is not clear that the text "...has been" is incomplete.
Mmm.. this is because a layouting error. With a proper layout this things should not happen as the dialog will autoexpand itself to show all the content. Are you getting this in any other place? I suggest you to report each layouting issue to the app maintainer as it needs a local fix. Thanks!
I have in fact seen this in other places, but I disagree that this should be a local fix. In fact, as KDE / Qt does not let the app set the size of the window, or the fact that the user can resize the window, a local fix does not seem right. I suggest either scrollbars or a min-size attribute, both of which may be Qt issues. Can a Qt developer shed some insight and possibly push the bug upstream? Thanks!
With a proper layouting, the QWidget/QDialog/KMainApplication/whatever will set a minimum size for the dialog/window, so the user can not resize it to a lower size than it (allowing the texts to be seen properly). Scrollbars are an ugly workaround when there is no space left in the screen to use.....
SVN commit 972450 by rkcosta: Remove the single folder notice label. Since it had wordWrap set to true, it was breaking the layout and allowing the widget to be resized to (0,0). BUG: 193868 M +0 -8 extractiondialog.cpp M +81 -94 extractiondialog.ui WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=972450
SVN commit 972457 by rkcosta: Backport commit 972450. Remove the single folder notice label. Since it had wordWrap set to true, it was breaking the layout and allowing the widget to be resized to (0,0). CCBUG: 193868 M +0 -8 extractiondialog.cpp M +0 -26 extractiondialog.ui WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=972457
Thanks, Raphael