#5 UI: Dropbox selections do not expand

[Lukas Neubert]

See the attached screenshots for an example. I guess, these are dropbox selections but they don't expand.

While I can use arrow keys to switch the items, it's just very hard to find the right one without an overview.

BDJ 4.17.3.2

Operating System: TUXEDO OS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-112033-tuxedo (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (5,7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

[Brad Lanam]

I used the spinboxes because the GTK3+ drop-downs have a horrible UI design (I think Qt has the same issue). I tried to minimize the use of drop-downs where really needed. I wanted to use the spinboxes where the number of selection is about 5 or fewer.

I agree that the 'Locale' selection should be a drop-down rather than a spinbox. There are quite a few selections there. I can change this.

It is interesting that the spinboxes on your computer have X + rather than - + displayed. I don't know what's going on there. That is something internal to GTK3+. You can try using a different theme. And of course, the arrow keys work.

[Brad Lanam]

Just for informational purposes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494086
The X instead of - bug is a KDE breeze theme bug, fixed 8 months ago. There may be other GTK3 icon themes with this bug.

In the configuration, I changed locale, UI theme and marquee theme to be drop-downs. I had to work around a GTK bug in the process. I should be able to run the tests and make a release tomorrow.

Most other text spinboxes have fairly short lists, excepting "display settings". There are a few other text spinboxes that could potentially have more items that is reasonable, but I'm going to leave those alone.

[Brad Lanam]

The Locale, UI Theme and Marquee Theme have been changed to use drop-downs in version 4.17.3.3. The other text spinboxes generally have quite a short list of options and can be traversed with the - and + buttons.