[Bug 1864540] [NEW] Auto-Size Left Pane Wider Than Longest Text

[Lonnie Lee Best]

Public bug reported:

When kinfocenter launches, the left page is too narrow to display the
entirety of all the phrases listed in its left pane. The user can drag
the left pane wider, but the very next time kinfocenter is launched, it
resorts back to a left-pane-width that's more narrow than the phrases it
contains.

Watch this Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNWBFx1NKY

Keeping in mind, that KDE users can set their font-sizes to be much
larger than the 10pt font you get from a fresh installation of Kubuntu.
So, the larger the font-size-setting, the more truncation of letters
that result from this left pane being too narrow.

Therefore, I propose that each time kinfocenter launches, it should take
the user's font-size into consideration, and auto-size the left pane to
a size that's wide enough to show all phrases in their entirety.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: kinfocenter 4:5.16.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Feb 24 13:35:31 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-03 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kinfocenter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: kinfocenter (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug eoan

** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #418151
   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418151

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