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Kleopatra: Limit width of KMessageBoxes
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KMessageBox is the component commonly used for showing various errors, warnings, etc.

When the text in the dialog becomes wide, it isn't wrapped, leading to potentially very wide dialogs.

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• TobiasFella triaged this task as Normal priority.May 13 2025, 3:22 PM
• TobiasFella created this task.
• TobiasFella added a comment.May 16 2025, 12:09 PM

Apparently KMessageBoxes do actually wrap, just at a larger width than we'd have expected. Lowering this width should be a trivial patch that we could do locally, if we want to

• TobiasFella removed • TobiasFella as the assignee of this task.Jan 12 2026, 10:04 AM
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• ikloecker mentioned this in T7502: Kleopatra: Import secret key dialog improvement.Thu, Mar 12, 8:28 AM
tfry claimed this task.Thu, Mar 12, 8:47 AM
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Merge request for KMessageBox: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwidgetsaddons/-/merge_requests/339

tfry mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Mon, Mar 16, 9:56 AM
tfry mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Mon, Mar 23, 9:14 AM
tfry added a comment.Thu, Mar 26, 11:11 AM

Patch was merged upstream (KF 6.25): 332678d8a4f635d6938eb3e9ec03d845aa89697a

tfry mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Mon, Mar 30, 9:40 AM