Bug 161904

Summary:	entries in the taskbar in plasma panel are too small and narrow
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Janet <bugzilla>
Component:	panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	too tiny taskbar entries

Description Janet 2008-05-10 16:40:30 UTC

Version:           4.0.71 (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Everytime I start an application the entries in the taskbar get smaller (and do not increase when applications are closed). By now I have a (wild guess) icons size of 4-8 and a greyed out text of which only the first half letter is visible (in two rows...). Much space between those fragments. I really cannot distinguish between the taskbar entries so alas for me it is completely useless the way it is now. Please don't change the icon size automatically but instead let the user decide how big the icons in the taskbar shall be. Or let the user set a minimum size the icons won't go beyond. It also seems a little weird just to have two half letters of the application name displayed when there's so much space left in the taskbar. 
A taskbar's job is to show the running tasks and let the user switch between them. But that job is not done when the user cannot distinguish between the running tasks.

Comment 1 Janet 2008-05-10 16:42:52 UTC

Created attachment 24700 [details]
too tiny taskbar entries

Attached a picture of the taskbar with three running tasks, standard height of
panel. the task entries are so tiny I cannot say which one is which.

Comment 2 Dan Meltzer 2008-05-10 17:00:55 UTC

I'm pretty sure this was fixed in trunk a while back.

Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-05-19 09:39:36 UTC

I cannot reproduce this behaviour too.
Janet: could you try to update KDE to a more recent revision and confirm that the bug has been closed?

Comment 4 Alex Merry 2008-07-05 12:40:05 UTC

No response from Janet in over a month; no-one else seems to be able to reproduce.

Comment 5 Janet 2008-07-07 02:38:46 UTC

Seems to be ok now.