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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>Folder View always reserves enough vertical space to fit the configured number of lines to keep an evenly-spaced grid. The default number of lines should therefore strike a happy medium between conserving vertical space to fit more rows and catering to the odd longer file name. 3 would optimize for most file names being so long that even with ellision they're not readable at two lines, which I don't feel is warranted.</p></div>
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<p>I don't feel like 3 lines is excessively long or uncommon. Here's a screenshot of a random folder viewed in Dolphin on my personal machine, for example:<br />
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<p>Many of the files have names that seem perfectly normal and reasonable to me in terms of length, yet require 3 or even 4 lines. In Dolphin, this is fine, there's no problem. If I put them on the desktop, they become borderline unreadable until I increase the number of lines. This isn't a problem for you and me; we're expert users who find and tweak settings. But most normal users won't, and will assume that their Desktop is just broken.</p>
<p>As is, we need to balance against two use cases:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">People with an enormous amount of desktop icons (for whom it is more important to have a tight grid and show more icons)</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">People with desktop icons that have long-ish titles (for whom it is more important to show their icons' titles</li>
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<p>Since these people's needs are mutually exclusive, we'll always upset one group unless we let them self-serve with a config option, or somehow cleverly improve the UI to obviate the problem. The latter case would seem ideal, but I'm drawing a blank right now.</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>As for making it configurable - maybe. Not sure. I'm not there yet, because on my end, the user complaints have stopped</p></blockquote>
<p>FWIW we have at least three bug reports complaining that titles don't get enough room:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item"><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379432" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379432</a></li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item"><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380272" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380272</a></li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item"><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390531" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390531</a></li>
</ul></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R119 Plasma Desktop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>BRANCH</strong><div><div>more-generous-folder-view-title-display (branched from master)</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D11358">https://phabricator.kde.org/D11358</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ngraham, hein, Plasma<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>plasma-devel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart<br /></div>