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pheon

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 91

[SOLVED] KDE 4.2 Dolphin abbreviates file- and foldernames in a strang

Howdy,

I just installed KDE 4.2 from the Extra-Repo (x86_64).Everything works fine so far, expect Dolphin!
In "Details"-View (my default), Dolphin abbreviates the name of files and folders after 1-7 chars.

Some examples:
Music -> M...
Uni -> ...
Documents -> Docum...

The shorter the original file name is, the less chars Dolphin displays, before it starts to abbreviate with "...".

This only occurs in Details-Mode. Columns / Icons are fine.

I played around in the Options for View Modes and noticed something even more strange:
I pick the default System Font, I get the behavior described above.
I pick a custom font (let's say Charter) and I increase the font size, more characters are displayed correctly. Inverse effect by decreasing the fontsize.

I've made two screenshots to illustrate the problem
Systemfont
Custom Font, fontsize 14

I deleted the following files / folders to get new and clean settings, unfortunately this didn't work
~/.kde4/share/config/dolphinrc
~/.kde4/share/apps/dolphin

Filesystembrowser from other KDE-Apps (Kate, Ktorrent, etc.) do not have this problem.

Can anyone reproduce this behavior?
Neither google nor KDE-bugtracker came up with anything like this.
Any ideas?

Best Regards

//edit: snd link fixed

Last edited by pheon (2009-01-29 21:42:10)

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deej

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Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 395

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.2 Dolphin abbreviates file- and foldernames in a strang

Your second link doesn't work [solved]

Back to thinking about your problem ...

Deej

[EDIT]

I came, I thought, I'm stumped
Very strange... is there a '.font.config' file in your home directory ?

Deej

Last edited by deej (2009-01-29 18:49:22)

pheon

Member

From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 91

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.2 Dolphin abbreviates file- and foldernames in a strang

deej, thanks for your time and good will, to help me

Actually I found the problem: an old version of the bespin theme.
I created a second user and reproduced step by step the settings on my mainaccount. As soon, I changed the theme to this ancient version of bespin, dolphin started to maltreat file/folder names. I am not sure, why this is fixed with an newer version or whatever exactly caused this problem.
Anyways, fixed now.

Thanks and best regards!

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deej

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Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 395

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.2 Dolphin abbreviates file- and foldernames in a strang

Glad it's fixed

Deej