D11358: Give file and folder names a bit more room in Folder View

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In D11358#226649 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11358#226649>, @hein wrote:
  
  > 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.
  
  
  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:
  F5755148: Common file names.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F5755148>
  
  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.
  
  As is, we need to balance against two use cases:
  
  - People with an enormous amount of desktop icons (for whom it is more important to have a tight grid and show more icons)
  - People with desktop icons that have long-ish titles (for whom it is more important to show their icons' titles
  
  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.
  
  > As for making it configurable - maybe. Not sure. I'm not there yet, because on my end, the user complaints have stopped
  
  FWIW we have at least three bug reports complaining that titles don't get enough room:
  
  - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379432
  - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380272
  - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390531

REPOSITORY
  R119 Plasma Desktop

BRANCH
  more-generous-folder-view-title-display (branched from master)

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D11358

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