Can this be done? I'm on Leaf 15.1, BTW.

I'd like being able to label the virtual desktops available via the pager but if the desktop name is more than four characters, KDE is cutting the rest off due to the tiny size. For example, "Main" is being truncated to "M...". "Web" becomes "W...", "Test" becomes "T...", etc.. There appear to no handles that one can use to resize the pager and the configuration for that widget has no settings for the width. It seems pretty much pointless to allow users to label the virtual desktops and then hide the labels. It's not like I'm looking to label a desktop "Throat-wobbler Mangrove" or anything like that.

It's bad enough that the KDE developers took away the ability to use different backgrounds/wallpapers for each virtual desktop (being able to visually determine which desktop you're on from the background was really, really handy) but this flaw makes using KDE almost user-hostile.

Like I mentioned above: Can changing the pager width be done? An XML setting somewhere, perhaps?

TIA...

I spent a few minutes monkeying around with this, and more than anything it sounds like the KDE developers need a good email about this. It makes no sense for them to have non-adjustable pager button sizes that are smaller than the default desktop names if you check the option to display their names.

If you get it down to just one row under "Configure Desktops", the buttons get just a tad larger if that's of help. (big enough for Web and Test display fully on my screen)

I found that there were only two ways to make the labels completely visible: 1.) make the font size very small (nearly unreadable--not good) or 2.) increase the height of the panel so that the pager widget increases in height--apparently the developers thought it was critical to make each pager button mirror the aspect ratio of your monitor so if you increase the height, you increase the width. The trouble with that is that now the panel is cartoonishly large and is uses way too much screen real estate. :^(

That actually little better except that it steals a lot of panel space from the task manager widget. Tradeoffs... tradeoffs. :^/

I'll have to look into the KDE fora and see if adding a width adjustment to the pager is something that's being discussed.

Thanks...