Review Request: kfileplaceeditdialog lineedit too small

[Peter Penz]

> On Oct. 5, 2011, 11:30 a.m., David Faure wrote:
> > Why the setMaxLength?? What if one wants to type in a long URL?
> > 
> > Also, I can't reproduce the bug here (kde-4.7), but maybe only because the big icon button makes the dialog quite large?
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> Greg T wrote:
>     indeed, the setmaxLength was stupid
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>     it's quite small on 4.6.5 http://wstaw.org/m/2011/10/05/plasma-desktopF27745.jpg
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> David Faure wrote:
>     Ah I see, it's the german translation which makes the label longer ("Choose an icon" -> "Wählen Sie ein Symbol aus"), leaving less room for the lineedits.
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>     Patch 3 looks good, although I can't help but think there's a bug if a set*Width() call takes a height() as value :-) But I'll trust Christoph on this one.

> Patch 3 looks good, although I can't help but think there's a bug if a
> set*Width() call takes a height() as value :-) But I'll trust Christoph on this one.

Using QFontMetrics::averageCharWidth() might be an alternative in comparison to use the height as reference for calculating the width (but probably this has some drawbacks I'm not aware of).


- Peter


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On Oct. 5, 2011, 6:22 p.m., Greg T wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 5, 2011, 6:22 p.m.)
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> Review request for Dolphin and kdelibs.
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> Description
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> Hi, this patch sets a minimum size for the widget. 
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> This addresses bug 266435.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266435
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> Diffs
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>   kfile/kfileplaceeditdialog.cpp d798b4d 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102751/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> it's working
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> Thanks,
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> Greg T
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