Created attachment 173059 [details] Alignment issues I hate to be That Guy™ who draws lines on screenshots, but there are clearly some code-related alignment issues with the Weather widget due to the presence of absence of precipitation percentage labels. On days when they're missing, the icons and day labels above them are too far down. See attached screenshot.
Created attachment 173060 [details] works in my PC The issue is... I've been trying with different fonts and settings, and I'm not able ever to reproduce it so I don't know what can be happening in your case. For me the spacing is always perfectly preserved. The precipitation labels don't get hidden when not in use, but the text is a visual placeholder "·" It might be different vertical metrics calculation for this dot, but afaik the height of the text box should be the same for any characters If you can, a screenshot with gammaray to pinpoint the actual size of the items with and without precipitation might be helpful
Created attachment 173061 [details] With lots of background rectangles for illustration purposes Here you go, with lots of rectangles behind the items. I figured it out: it's the umbrella emoji! You see a colorful emoji which has the same height as the text, so the height of the "chance of precipitation" labels matches up with the height of the "no precipitation" labels. But for me, I see a monochrome emoji which, for some reason, is taller than the rest of the characters. This increases the height of the "chance of precipitation" labels. relative to the "no precipitation" labels. Setting "Layout.preferredHeight: 50" on the precipitation label fixes it, though of course that's a crude fix that's the wrong way to go about it.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > Created attachment 173061 [details] > With lots of background rectangles for illustration purposes > > Here you go, with lots of rectangles behind the items. > > I figured it out: it's the umbrella emoji! You see a colorful emoji which > has the same height as the text, so the height of the "chance of > precipitation" labels matches up with the height of the "no precipitation" > labels. > > But for me, I see a monochrome emoji which, for some reason, is taller than > the rest of the characters. This increases the height of the "chance of > precipitation" labels. relative to the "no precipitation" labels. > > Setting "Layout.preferredHeight: 50" on the precipitation label fixes it, > though of course that's a crude fix that's the wrong way to go about it. Nice! The colored/uncolored emoji is a translation issue. I tried to set it always to b&w, but the special unicode character to set "text mode" doesn't get extracted into the translation files. When using en_US I think you'll be getting the untranslated text. At this point I think the colored one looks better and hopefully also behaves better. Worst case scenario, it has to do with different emoji fonts and I'll have to add a TextMetrics to fix it
I also think the colored one looks better, but unfortunately it's no-deterministic as to which one the user will get due to the vagaries of their fontconfig, system language, etc. Probably we do need a TextMetrics thing in there.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/616
Git commit 07c5965d4ae9807eacb8031c5db35abcd9640017 by Ismael Asensio. Committed on 29/08/2024 at 14:58. Pushed by iasensio into branch 'master'. applets/weather: Fix apperance and size for the umbrella emoji If the regular font and the emoji font don't match, the height of the bounding boxes will be different for labels with or without the umbrella, disrupting the layout. Let's set a fixed height using the metrics of the regular font, and also remove the unicode marker for text-mode emojis, because it's non-deterministic, not getting translated, and also looks worse. FIXED-IN: 6.2 M +15 -2 applets/weather/package/contents/ui/ForecastView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/07c5965d4ae9807eacb8031c5db35abcd9640017