Description of problem: I'm writing a KFile plugin for kde 3.5 and discovered that long text in a metadata field is not wrapped by the kde file properties dialog. This bug is usually not triggered because most metadata items with KFileMimeTypeInfo::Description are editable comment fields and so use the multi-line editbox. Not sure how to produce a test case - I can't think of any existing mime-types with read-only description fields or long metadata offhand - I notice there's no kfile plugins for .rpm in kde3.5, maybe there's something in kde4/strigi? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdelibs-3.5.8-19.fc8 How reproducible: View long text in meta-data tab in right-click properties dialog from konqueror/dolphin. Actual results: Horizontal scroll bar. Expected results: Wrapped text.
Created attachment 293312 [details] Untested diff provided by dfaure in irc Here's a possible solution proposed by dfaure on #kde. I don't know if the KFileMimeTypeInfo::Multiline flag should be re-used for this.
Imo, this is something better addressed upstream. Looks like you've started that with dfaure on #kde, great. Anything reported to bugs.kde.org yet?
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We'll track this upstream.