As in description - the item text is truncated when you select "Description (Name)" from "Show Applications as" from the applet settings. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use kicker "Application Menu" 2. Select "Description (Name)" from "Show Applications as" from the applet settings. Actual Results: The item text in the applications list sub-menu is truncated Expected Results: The menu should auto resize it's width, and never truncate item texts (unless the text length is insane and will fill the whole screen...).
The menus are currently fixed-size by design.
Then the design has to be changed, because this IS wrong. If this is by design, then why it does not happen on the "normal" QT-based menus, and only on this QML/Plasma based one? Why the inconsistency? Why not truncate the text on all menus? Because it's wrong. Almost all of the items get truncated this way, especially if your display language is not English. It just looks buggy and incomplete, compared to the classic "classic" menu. The issue is far from "resolved" so I'm marking it as unconfirmed again. Feel free to ignore my input and "wontfix" it again :)
I currently don't want to resize the dialog horizontally due to architectural/performance issues on X11 that cause artifacts. Resizing on two axis would excercabate this issue. It's not a problem with normal QMenus because they don't contain an OpenGL scene and resizing them is cheaper. This can be reevaluated once Plasma fully supports and defaults to Wayland, so let's go with RESOLVED LATER if it makes you happier.
This... I can agree with.
Trust me, I'm not happy with it either. We tried improving the resize performance with trickery in both kwin and Qt and the dialog code, and just ran into conceptual walls of the windowing system. Wayland nicely fixes all of this though.