KDE set desktop icon text length

I'm having a problem with program shortcuts on my KDE desktop. KDE doesn't show the complete text of the icon. I've attached a screenshot to clarify, it basically comes down to this:
"MP3 Jukebox" show as "Mp3 Ju..."
"Windows 7" show as "Window..."
Can I force KDE to show the complete name?

is the complete name shown if you hover it?
in dolphin you can setup how filenames are shown (1 line, two lines and so on) and in case that there exists no Desktop in KDE, just a folderview you have to setup your desktop like every folder.

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Hi!
I'm still using xfce 4.8 (gonna upgrade soon) and since about a week i noticed that my desktop icon text is bold...this is quite annoying and i don't understand why, because i did not change anything.
There are no options about this behaviour and my system characters are not bold.
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2) i'll tell you when i'll upgrade
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TokarzJ wrote:
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[SOLVED] Setting Qt icon theme without KDE.

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[Solved] wy i can place xfce4 desktop icons in a "grid" only?

hello archers!
im in love with xfce4 DE, but the annoying thing is that i can place the desktop icons only in a invisible "grid" of tiles.
i changed the display manager to gdm, but it didn't help. i tryed changing the WM, but didn't not find out how to do that.
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Last edited by xfce-tux (2011-09-12 21:13:34)

Another way to adjust the desktop grid size settings and more.
Source: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README
HIDDEN CUSTOMISATIONS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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defaults) will disable the shadows entirely. Again, the 'selected-'
versions apply to icons that have been selected with the mouse.
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'cell' in the grid of icons. The 'cell-padding' property sets extra
padding placed around each icon+text. The units for these two are in
pixels. The 'cell-text-width-proportion' property specifies the maximum
width of the text label underneat the icon, as a multiplier of the icon
width (so for 30px icons, '2.5' would leave a 75px wide area underneath
for the text).
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keyboard/mouse focus.
* ACTIVE sets the color for when the icon is selected, but the desktop does
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The final three entries set the color of the label text. See above for the
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Hi CoachSimpson31,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like what you may be looking for is the customization window for desktop files and folders. There is no option for bold text, but there is an option to adjust the text size that may be helpful to you.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3737
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Have a great day,
Joe

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Delete a plist somewhere? I assume this is not normal. Considering the mess you see with icons for folders in the Dock, best not to assume...

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Can you ask Applescript if an icon is already there, if so then just add 100 pixels in the code so the new icon is offset a bit. Thanks

For most (but not all) properties, if you can set them then you can also get them (check the application dictionary to verify the properties you're after).
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