[dolphin] [Bug 495942] Information column headers are expandable beyond the window width

[Felix Ernst]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495942

--- Comment #6 from Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> ---
I thought a bit more about this and this request as it is would lead to major
issues. The thing is that a file can have e.g. a file comment, song title,
authors,  or some other information which is extremely wide. Users need to be
able to resize such a column until they can read the full data. So we should
not prevent users from increasing the size of such columns. The logical
consequence is that the columns can get too wide for the view/window.

There could be an argument being made that we should identify such columns that
can have very wide data in it and only allow resizing such columns. I am not
sure though if that wouldn't just lead to a weird user experience because users
would then get used to resizing sometimes working and sometimes not.

>But when grabbing the outer side of the most right of these header columns
>and dragging it to the right, outside the screen, I can pull it further and further
>and the scroll bar at the bottom appears to scroll through the window to the right.

There is a bug there which I am fixing which is that resizing the right padding
at the same time increases the size of the previous column even if the goal was
to only reduce the padding to zero. I am fixing this by adding a soft boarder,
so one really needs to push hard and mean it to also resize the last role
column.

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