Bug 204917

Summary:	Super-Tiny desktop theme, widgets and panels
Product:	[Unmaintained] artwork	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDE Artists Mailinglist <kde-artists>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, nate, neptunia, nuno, stefan
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Dotan Cohen 2009-08-23 22:13:17 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Many of the complaints that I see directed at KDE 4 mention the size of the widgets, fonts, panels, and other elements. Many people find them wasteful of screen real estate. Although all these elements can be configured individually, KDE 4 needs a Super-Tiny theme preconfigured and preinstalled for these cases. In this bug I will collect mention of the apparently "wasteful" elements and use that to create an appropriate theme.

Comment 1 Ilya Chernykh 2009-08-24 10:15:28 UTC

Agreed. Also, take a look for example at Plastik theme in KDE3.5 and its much worser version Plastique in KDE4. Even with the same fonts Plastique has larger buttons and menu bars as if they were designed for Chinese ideograms.

Comment 2 Ilya Chernykh 2009-08-24 10:17:56 UTC

I disagree though that it should be one special super-tiny theme.

Comment 3 pinheiro 2009-08-26 10:21:07 UTC

This is not an artistic bug most of those issues are completely technical and have to do with the way Qt paints in the canvas.

Comment 4 Stefan Endrullis 2009-08-29 19:07:45 UTC

Is the panel themeable at all?
I mean can you remove the unnecessary spaces from the pager plasmoid by defining a new theme?

Comment 5 pinheiro 2009-08-29 22:40:38 UTC

yeah you can to some extent not much dough...

Comment 6 Dotan Cohen 2009-10-21 10:39:30 UTC

Those interested in space-saving measures might also be interesting in these bugs:

Ability to place a toolbar on the right of the menu bar
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169043

Collapse menu bar into icon
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211304

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-12-07 17:54:26 UTC

These days I see more criticism of things being too small lol. You can't please everyone, and things are generally quite configurable. If you want everything to be smaller, all you have to do is reduce the font size.