Bug 351827 - No way to see elided application names in Application Dashboard in full
Summary: No way to see elided application names in Application Dashboard in full
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kdeplasma-addons
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Dashboard (show other bugs)
Version: 5.4.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2015-08-26 20:33 UTC by Thomas Pfeiffer
Modified: 2016-03-07 16:43 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Thomas Pfeiffer 2015-08-26 20:33:37 UTC
When application names get too long in Application Dashboard, they get elided. There is no way to see their full name, which is problematic especially if two names only differ near their end.

Full application names should be shown on hover, either in a tooltip or by temporarily expanding the name of the application currently hovered over.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-08-26 20:54:11 UTC
Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible (not without making showTooltip publicly accessible from QML which I'm not sure we want) to use a single ToolTip item for multiple cells, like it does with the MouseArea.
Comment 2 BasioMeusPuga 2015-08-31 12:40:33 UTC
The same thing happens for filenames that show up with Desktop search. If you have a string that matches 2 similar filenames, there's no way of telling which one is the one you want because only the first several letters show up.

May I suggest that there be an option to show results as a horizontal list also? That'll take care of the attenuation without needing tooltips.
Comment 3 Eike Hein 2015-10-01 19:03:45 UTC
Patch incoming via https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125402/
Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-07 16:43:48 UTC
There are tooltips now.