Bug 447637 - Activity bar widget. Activity name gets cut in half when opening settings
Summary: Activity bar widget. Activity name gets cut in half when opening settings
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Activity Switcher sidebar (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.23.4
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Ivan Čukić
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Reported: 2021-12-29 11:23 UTC by log.nicu
Modified: 2025-09-23 11:57 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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What happens after opening the desktop settings (15.47 KB, image/png)
2021-12-29 11:23 UTC, log.nicu
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Description log.nicu 2021-12-29 11:23:15 UTC
Created attachment 144927 [details]
What happens after opening the desktop settings

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add Activity Bar Widget to the task bar
2. Right click on desktop and select "Configure desktop and wallpaper" settings.
3. Might be reproduced by opening other settings too, but the step 2 happens always

OBSERVED RESULT
Activity name text gets cut in half




SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:  KDE Neon 5.23 user edition and Kubuntu 21.10
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version:  5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It happens both on X11 and Wayland
Comment 1 joelsonejr 2023-08-25 13:06:23 UTC
I was able to confirm the reported issue, in a recent KDE version. 
System used for testing:

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
 Host: KVM/QEMU (Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-8.0)
 Kernel: 6.1.41-1-MANJARO
 Packages: 1191 (pacman)
 Shell: bash 5.1.16
 Resolution: 1920x1200
 DE: Plasma 5.27.6
 WM: KWin
 Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
 Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
 Terminal: konsole
 CPU: Intel i7-4790K (3) @ 4.080GHz
 GPU: 00:01.0 Red Hat, Inc. Virtio 1.0 GPU
 Memory: 3920MiB
Comment 2 Niccolò Venerandi 2025-09-23 11:57:05 UTC
I cannot reproduce anymore on Plasma 6.5 opening any system settings page; given that the panel edit mode display for widgets has been refactored since then, I think this has been fixed since then.