SUMMARY Since introduction in 5.24, the Overview screen's Desktop Bar will overflow off-screen with extreme desktop counts. While this does not cause a crash or error, it causes controls to draw off-screen. With default DPI/no scaling, the horizontal (1 x n) Desktop Bar will overflow at: 2560x1440 - 16 desktops 1920x1080 - 13 desktops Similar overflows would occur on a left-edge Desktop Bar (when desktops are n x 1 layout), and in a non-linear state (2x2, 3x3, 4x4 grid). A 4x4 grid user with 16 desktops would be the most likely to encounter this issue in practice. Screenshots from my Plasma desktop illustrate the issue at 4-9-16 desktop count. Similar screenshots from my Macbook demonstrate the same count. MacOS's design mitigates overflow in order of appearance of the effects (vice versa as desktops are removed): -At 10 desktops: shrink previews + zoom/accordion on hover -At 12 desktops: hide labels unless hovered -At 16 desktops: prevent creating more desktops Obviously KDE Plasma is not MacOS, we can find an elegant way to handle this that doesn't just copy Apple. I think that reading in the screen dimensions+DPI, then defining a ratio of "desktop count : screen length" could be sufficient to trigger an overflow state, where a solution like a scrollbar container could kick in, or scale the previews down and up in that state. I'll help where I can, but it's not a high priority for now.
Created attachment 173096 [details] 16 Desktops in KDE
Created attachment 173097 [details] 16 Desktops in MacOS
Created attachment 173099 [details] 16 Desktops in KDE
Created attachment 173100 [details] 16 Desktops in MacOS
Slight update after digging around a bit: the oversized bar IS scrollable with a click+drag. No real break, then! It could be enhanced with UI arrows/cursor indicators to show the bar is able to be grabbed, and mouse hover on the screen edge could be a more intuitive way to trigger the scroll.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 449908 ***