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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jake Tolbert wrote on 16/06/10 05:05:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:doctormo@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>...
>> That is what you would get if you removed the ... from the bar when
>> they get resized.
>>
>> I never understood why there was a ... when no text could fit.
>...
> Fwiw, this has always been one of my biggest frustrations w/
> KDE--taskbar items get shrunk quickly so the majority of the space for
> the program/document name is taken up with ellipsis. Of course, if items
> are shrunk, it's because you have a lot of them, which means more and
> more ellipsis and less and less actual text.
>...

Excellent point. Maybe someone could report a papercut on changing the
ellipsis to a fade-out of the last few pixels, or something like that.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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