It's bogus, because noone was able to produce a solution.

Just curious - why is this bug marked bogus?  I notice the following 
behaviour under IE:



Personal size set to 150:  Looks good when everything is collapsed.   
Gap exists and scroll bar appears when something is expanded using + 
and contains a long module (such as "version control")



Personal size set to 160:  If you log in and menu items are collapsed: 
everything looks good and expands nicely without scroll bar.  If you 
log in and menu items are expanded: Even though there is now enough 
room for everything, a horizontal scroll bar and the gap appear 
unnecessarily.  Collapsing and re-expanding does not help.

To quote my post with the hack:



"here's a hack to at least make the gap go away"



So therefore it doesn't fix the scrollbar. The scrollbar, to be 
honest, was less of a worry for me than the gap.



I have since come up with and implemented a way to fix the whole lot 
even with the way the current javascript works; titles wrap nicely 
into the space or are clipped if there's no whitespace, and the 
navigation tree is unbroken, works for IE5+ on Mac & Windows, Firefox, 
Opera. Modifications were made in CSS, javascript source and to images.



But after a recent skirmish with the horde bunch, thanks very much but 
I'm keeping my work to myself.

This patch doesn't work for me. There is less horizontal scrolling 
with it, but I still get a horizontal scrollbar with IE, and the width 
isn't kept with Gecko after the sidebar refreshed.

Well, can't do it with styles because of the way the menu tree images 
work, so in the best quick-n-dirty fashion, here's a hack to at least 
make the gap go away. It simply adds the defined sidebar width or the 
default of 150 to the expandedSidebar CSS block.



Tested on WXPSP2 IE6 & Firefox 1.0, as that's all I have access to at 
home, and I didn't want to use any browsercam credits on a small hack.

There is no such documention, but the sidebar styles are grouped in 
themes/screen.css.

Certainly.



Where would I find documentation on the CSS classes used in the output 
generated by the javascript for the sidebar? I don't see it in the 
'docs' folder, nor in the comments in the javascript files.

Let us know when you found an elegant solution that works in all 
browsers and does not simply cut off the application names.

If applications['horde']['name'] is set too long for the width of the 
side bar (default 150px), the following side-effects occur:



1) A scrollbar appears at the bottom of the sidebar (expected 
behaviour but perhaps not very elegant)

2) A gap appears between the coloured header of the sidebar and the 
coloured header of the main frame.



For a visual of the gap thing, see:



http://www.completelymeaningless.com/hordestuff/hp1.gif



I don't want to 'just make it wider' - that's not an elegant solution!