I like how the taskbar in 4.0.x a program took the hole length of the taskbar with the name centered.And if a another program started it would split it in half then if a third started it would be 1/3 for each program, etc. In 4.0.6 the name of the program did not get cut off till you had tons of programs open, now with the set length even with one program open text is cut off. Sorry if I open to many bug reports.I just thought I should give my two cents to try and make xfce even better :)
This is not a bug, it's an opinion. Please discuss on the mailing list instead.
there was a bit of discussion about this on the mailing list, and it was generally decided to keep it as it is now. devs, feel free to reopen if you think this should be revisited.
adding patch
for some reason I started to dislike that cutting too. If you are interested, check out the trivial patch.
mass closing some old resolved bugs; please reopen if in error