Bug 346420

Summary: Pinned Task Manager launchers don't scale beyond a certain size as Panel is increased in thickness
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Eyad <CTownThug711>
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task ManagerAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: be.0, bruhzakahmed420666, lemmyg, matthias.sweertvaegher, nate, ostroffjh, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: 5.2.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Chakra   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Depends on: 486420    
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Description Eyad 2015-04-21 02:12:07 UTC
The shortucts in task manager do not get larger as the panel's height is increased; while the actual open program icons do. Looks pretty funny!

Plasma version: 5.2.2
Chipset: Ivybridge
Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable "Show a launcher when not running" option in task manager.
2. Close that program.
3. Increase height of panel and watch as open program icon scales (along with words) and shortcut icons do not.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2017-12-13 19:35:47 UTC
Still reproduces in 5.11.4. Launcher icons do resize to a certain point, but then they reach a maximum size and don't get any bigger. I thought that maybe the maximum size was controlled by the Icons KCM, but none of those settings had any effect the way they do for the the kickoff icon, for instance.
Comment 2 matthias sweertvaegher 2017-12-21 13:06:55 UTC
it's been bugging me too and until recently I used Icon launchers instead which do scale but don't get replaced when the app is launched. However, now that I need more open windows, I reverted back to "show a launcher when not running" to reclaim the space but was reminded of this "bug". It would be nice if the launcher icon would follow the taskbar height as Icon launchers do.

Here is a video to explain the problem: https://youtu.be/cApzBCtp0dI
Comment 3 galder 2022-01-30 15:37:08 UTC
Looks like an old issue. Setting it to needs more info.
Please if this is not an issue any more let us know.
Bugs placed into NEEDSINFO status will receive a reminder if the ticket:

    Is at least 15 days old
    Has not received any comment within 15 days

If a bug remains in NEEDSINFO for another 15 days with no comment, it will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-01-30 19:34:22 UTC
This issue was confirmed and is definitely still an issue. Please don't put bugs in NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO status just because they're old--especially not if they've been marked as confirmed. At least try to reproduce them yourself first.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2022-01-30 19:57:43 UTC
What's going on here is that the icon height is restricted to a maximum size determined in the Icons KCM.

Yes, this is confusing. I's like to remove all the global icon size controls in the Icons KCM because they apply to seemingly random things in seemingly random ways.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2023-04-11 21:31:35 UTC
This is fixed in Plasma 5.27 4 where the "Panel icon size" concept no longer exists and is hence not respected by anything anymore.
Comment 7 Zoey Ahmed 2023-11-26 01:12:56 UTC
Yep, can confirm I am also getting this on a fresh install of kde Developer Edition as of 26/11/2023, on both wayland and X11
Comment 8 Zoey Ahmed 2023-11-26 01:19:18 UTC
(In reply to Zoey Ahmed from comment #7)
> Yep, can confirm I am also getting this on a fresh install of kde Developer
> Edition as of 26/11/2023, on both wayland and X11

https://imgur.com/a/xswwduH 
Here is an example of it happening with firefox
Not sure why this bug is reappearing in KDE 6 Alpha.
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2023-11-29 19:35:44 UTC
Looks like I closed this bug report inappropriately, since the panel icon size setting has nothing to do with pinned app launcher icons in the traditional task manager. I can confirm it's still an issue in Plasma 6.
Comment 10 Nate Graham 2023-11-29 19:36:00 UTC
I'll throw it on the pile of things to investigate.