This is not a bug. I'd call it a regression. In v8.6.0 the minimum width of the left sidebar in the main window is way too large. I cannot make is smaller than approx 500px wide anymore. Qt Version: 6.8.3/x11
This have been reported already. It's due to translation strings using excessive length. We mark all relevant string with annotation for translators for optimizations planed at 8.7.0 release. Try the 8.7.0 pre-release AppImage here : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Best Gilles Caulier
Alternatively, you can collapse the new widgets in the Labels tab, Tags tab, and People tab. This will further reduce the size of the left sidebar. See Bug 501545 Maik
*** Bug 506551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 183019 [details] Make some italian strings shorter
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #1) > This have been reported already. > > It's due to translation strings using excessive length. We mark all relevant > string with annotation for translators for optimizations planed at 8.7.0 > release. Thanks. I failed to find the bug report #501545, sorry. I had hard time to find the offending labels because they are hidden in the auto-tag tool which is greyed out when the IA model is not present (and I didn't download it). I attached a patch than makes some of them shorter. It is a nice improvement, but it still doesn't allow the panel to be as small as is could in 8.5.0. Some strings (ie.: "Assign Low Quality to Rejected Label") are not easy to make shorter.
Hi Pochini, First, the translations patch must be send to the Italian team for future integration to the i18n packages. We don't manage it at all. Second, I review again the code and i find more place where some optimized widget in size can be used (Digikam::SqueezedComboBox instead Qt::QComboBox). So strings can be shorten more as full descriptions are available as ToolTips, and online documentation do the rest. I will patch code in git asap. Best regards Gilles Caulier
Git commit 830a0956128583ea9d554a25e82bbb45df06ee67 by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 07/07/2025 at 05:54. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. More optimizations about minimal Left sidebar width: - Shortness strings as possible with more description in tootips. - Use SqueezedComboBox instead QComboBox - Add comments in translations where tralators must take care about to write shortness string in native languages. Here, in English, the left sidebar is really small as possible now... Related: bug 506551 M +3 -3 core/libs/facesengine/widgets/facescanwidget.cpp M +16 -16 core/libs/imgqsort/imagequalitywidget.cpp M +2 -1 core/libs/imgqsort/imagequalitywidget_p.h M +13 -13 core/libs/tags/autoassignment/autotagsscanwidget.cpp M +3 -3 core/libs/tags/autoassignment/autotagsscanwidget_p.h M +1 -1 core/utilities/queuemanager/views/queuesettingsview.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/830a0956128583ea9d554a25e82bbb45df06ee67
Git commit b2e68171d7d3d7f9d9fd5eb83d04cbf9d393f8d6 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 07/07/2025 at 18:15. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. this also needs to be translated more shorter Related: bug 506551 M +2 -2 core/app/views/sidebar/peoplesidebarwidget.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/b2e68171d7d3d7f9d9fd5eb83d04cbf9d393f8d6
@Pochini, Can you test if the problem still reproducible using 8.8.0 AppImage daily build available here: https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Thanks in advance Gilles Caulier