Opening a KDE file dialog (for example, from Kate) to a set of directories and files which have short names properly displays all of the data (Name, Size, Date), showing all characters of the file and folder names. Navigating from that initial folder to a different folder with longer file and folder names does not resize the Name, Size and Date columns to fully show all file and folder names, resulting in truncated views of the data. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch an open file dialog to a folder with only short file and folder names, they are properly displayed 2. Navigate to a set of folders and files with longer names, they are truncated to the width of the original file and folder names 3. Actual Results: File and folder names for the second directory are truncated Expected Results: Column widths should resize to file the allowed space, or to show as much of the file and folder names as possible
Created attachment 76243 [details] Truncated file open folder and file names
This very annoying bug is still present in the latest KF5. Also, column width in detailed view is not remembered. Even better than remembering, column width should be *automatic*, like in Dolphin, so that the user doesn't have to worry about adjusting column width all the time.
Git commit 9a997fba312f4d9596cc880685ec1e28deb7a665 by Andreas Hartmetz. Committed on 12/11/2016 at 18:19. Pushed by ahartmetz into branch 'master'. Never stretch the last (=date) column in the file dialog. Stretching the date column makes it appear to need the excessive width when adding up non-name column widths in expandNameColumn(). The name column consequently became too narrow. Now why could the date column expand if the names needed a lot of space? It probably has something to do with expandNameColumn() being called several times while the directory model is loading and the exact order in which things are updated. Needs a more detailed analysis if this change causes a regression or still doesn't completely fix the problem. M +1 -2 src/filewidgets/kdiroperatordetailview.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kio/9a997fba312f4d9596cc880685ec1e28deb7a665
The fix was more about the name column being too narrow even when just opening one folder. By giving the other columns just their required widths and the rest to the name column, the name column automatically gets the maximum possible width, which kind of fixes this bug as a side effect. The interactions are pretty complicated so I've only pushed the change to master where it can get some testing and possibly further fixes.