Bug 487671 - Plasma "system widgets", like "System monitor widget", "Hard Disk activity widget", etc. ar too narrow (tiny)
Summary: Plasma "system widgets", like "System monitor widget", "Hard Disk activity wi...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: System Monitor widgets (show other bugs)
Version: 6.0.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2024-05-28 07:19 UTC by Eduardo
Modified: 2024-06-26 19:25 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 6.1.0
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tiny widgets (10.63 KB, image/png)
2024-05-28 07:19 UTC, Eduardo
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Widget shrinked (377.19 KB, image/png)
2024-05-28 10:22 UTC, Notabile
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Not yet... (147.94 KB, image/png)
2024-06-22 05:56 UTC, Notabile
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Description Eduardo 2024-05-28 07:19:42 UTC
Created attachment 169902 [details]
tiny widgets

SUMMARY
Plasma "System widgets" (System monitor, HDD activity, Individual Core usage, etc.) horizontal size are way too small, in the attached picture, there are 3 widgets which I separated by red lines to show the tiny width. The width is sort of ~ 2x smaller than height, which renders them very hard to see.
I can not control width manually, it is set automatically.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. add a widget to panel

OBSERVED RESULT
Widget's size horizontally is too narrow.

EXPECTED RESULT
It is at least 2x the vertical size, otherwise it is not really useful.
Ideally, I can set the size in % or otherwise.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Manjaro Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Graphics Platform: X11
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I usually use just 2 widgets, just before I filed this bug, I added 3rd just to check, whether it's my "older" config or problem in general.
I think the issue started when I started using Plasma 6, probably 6.0.1, but I had to recreate all of them, so they are not "very old" config.
For the proportion, the picture contains neighbouring widgets too, only the "graph" widgets are affected.
Comment 1 Notabile 2024-05-28 10:22:54 UTC
Created attachment 169905 [details]
Widget shrinked

Same here since KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5 and/or KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0
Comment 2 Notabile 2024-05-28 10:32:41 UTC
Similar to bug 487504
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487504
P.S. it doesn't matter if I use x11 or wayland
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2024-05-30 14:10:10 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/libksysguard/-/merge_requests/352
Comment 4 Eduardo 2024-05-30 15:24:29 UTC
I saw the MR and went to edit QML manually, reloaded plasma (kquitapp6 plasmashell; kstart plasmashell) and now it so so much better!
Now that I actually see it, 1.75 (approx 16/9) looks better than 2 times the height, but I guess that is quite subjective.
Thank you Marco Martin, this was very quick!
Comment 5 Eduardo 2024-06-03 10:30:01 UTC
I see that in MR there is an idea to use golden ratio from Fibonacci, that is a great idea, looks good to me.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2024-06-11 19:29:13 UTC
Should be fixed by https://invent.kde.org/plasma/libksysguard/-/commit/7fd880b2c2d1991d7f30d8b681312c4de701aa91 in Plasma 6.1
Comment 7 Notabile 2024-06-22 05:56:39 UTC
Created attachment 170799 [details]
Not yet...

Still not solved, in my case: if I add the cpu monitoring widget to a vertical panel, it is still shrinked and therefore unreadable.
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Graphics Platform: Wayland or X11
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2024-06-26 19:25:27 UTC
Please open a new bug report specifically for that; it's different from what was reported here.