Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources I just noticed that the new plasma widget explorer is truncating/cutting off the translation strings of the plasmoids items. If a translation consists of multiple words, some of those words are "moved" to the second line, which also is not visible. You can see what I mean in the attached screenshot I took. Thanks :-)
Created attachment 38158 [details] Screenshot of the bug
Question is how to solve this. I tried adding a second line ... but text wrapping gets ugly and I have applet titles where even the second line has not enough room. Ideas welcome.
Cutting only the tail and showing it completely what hovering could be a workaround. Making the single entries as wide as the text might not be an option because it would make the UI somewhat messy. But I might be wrong at this point. :)
What about making the text "scroll" like a "newsticker"? Do you think that might be an option? (Even though I think it might look a bit weird...)
Still valid in KDE SC 4.4.2. For languages with long words, this is a much greater problem than for English. For instance for Norwegian, *most* widget titles are truncated, and the visible text is sometimes quite confusing. It also looks like there is some truncation vertically, e.g., the bottom part of ‘g’ letters are cut off. I believe the best solution would be to make the tiles take up as much space as they need, and also add a second line of text (which would work for long multi-word titles), just like for the icons in the KDE system settings.
Another suggestion: Would perhaps moving to a *vertical* layout work better? Then the category names would probably fit on the screen, so one would avoid the current not very user-friendly scroll buttons just to see which widget *categories* are available. One disadvantage would be that fewer widget will fit vertically that horizontally, but I think the improved category view would somewhat mitigate this. Note that the fact that the widget explorer appears above (i.e., seems to extend from) the panel is not argument for keeping it at this position, as the widget explorer *still* appears at the bottom even if you have the panel at the top of the screen, or to the left or right.
Looking at the plasma widget explorer in KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1, it seems like the bug has been fixed.
What has been done?
I can't take a screenshot, since I'm back to KDE SC 4.4.3 (4.5 Beta 1, just doesn't seem to be stable enough for me), but I could try to explain it: The entries' size/width in the widget explorer is not "fixed"/hardcoded anymore, like it was the case in previous KDE SC versions. The size now adapts itself to the length of the applet's titles.