Bug 464841 - fade instead of ellipsis for too-long titles in Task Manager
Summary: fade instead of ellipsis for too-long titles in Task Manager
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2023-01-26 07:09 UTC by kenyaoz5
Modified: 2023-01-27 17:28 UTC (History)
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comparison of fade and ellipsis (12.24 KB, image/png)
2023-01-26 07:09 UTC, kenyaoz5
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Description kenyaoz5 2023-01-26 07:09:29 UTC
Created attachment 155654 [details]
comparison of fade and ellipsis

When a window's title is too long and overflows its space in the Task Manager, an ellipsis is placed at the end of the text. However, these ellipses take space and cut the titles to be very short. We would see more of the text if too-long titles were faded instead, as is done with Firefox and Chrome's tabs.

Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 22.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-01-27 17:28:53 UTC
Ellipses are intentional at this point in time. We used to fade in Qt 4 times and it caused no end of bugs due to the hugely more complex code requires to make it work everywhere. If we did it just in the Task Manager, we'd get bug reports that this was inconsistent, and they'd be right. :)