Right now we got single line input fields. These work fine as long as the text fits into them and is fully shown. There are two issues: 1) The user may not notice that not everything is visible, because there are no ellipses or fade outs 2) The user may be restricted in screen size given a long input text. Especially "Environment Variables" and "Command-line arguments" can become quiet long. Therefore it would be great if either a) there were an ellipses or fade out effect or b) single line input fields became vertical expanding multi line input fields
These are standard single-line Qt text fields; if the problem exists here, in principle it exists everywhere. I see two options: 1. Improve the discoverability of too-long text in standard Qt text fields. 2. Switch to a multi-line text field here as needed, and then wrap the text. #2 is feasible to do here, but I'm not sure it would be a good idea since it would cause the layout to bounce around and align poorly, and then we'd just get bug reports about that.
Make sense. Got a last idea: #3 Show a popup multi-line input field on click above or below the input field When the text fits (does not fit), popup closes (opens) and the focus is set accordingly to the right control. The text would be shown in both controls. I could imagine it to work nicely. Think _out of the box_ :-)