Bug 367586

Summary:	the icon of the application launcher scales with the panel indefinitely
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Thomas Weissel <xapient>
Component:	Application Menu (Kicker) widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kainz.a, notuxius, plasma-bugs, thomas.pfeiffer
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	hein: VisualDesign+
Version First Reported In:	5.7.2
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screenshot of the side panel with huge icons how it probably should look like widget-scaling

Description Thomas Weissel 2016-08-19 19:26:30 UTC

i'm not sure if this is the right category because it doesn't matter if i use the application menu, kicker, or kickoff or anything else... 

the application launcher icon becomes ridiculously huge if you scale the width of a vertical panel to more than 128px 

it wastes to much space and while it makes sense to have such a broad panel for the taskmanager (so it can display program names) it makes absolutely no sense to have the application launcher icon covering a third of the panel...  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.move the default panel to the left side of the screen (vertical panel)
2.stretch the panel width to more than 128 px 


Actual Results:  
the icon gets bigger and bigger until it covers all of the panel

Expected Results:  
the icon should have a fixed maximum width and height and spacing to the other plasmoids and NOT waste all of the available space

Comment 1 Thomas Weissel 2016-08-19 19:27:22 UTC

Created attachment 100687 [details]
screenshot of the side panel with huge icons

Comment 2 Thomas Weissel 2016-08-19 19:28:04 UTC

Created attachment 100688 [details]
how it probably should look like

Comment 3 Eike Hein 2016-08-23 18:45:32 UTC

VDG, can you comment?

Comment 4 Thomas Pfeiffer 2016-08-23 20:52:42 UTC

The problem is real. Vertical panels tend to be given greater width than horizontal ones are given height, because widgets like e.g. the clock don't work in a very narrow panel.
With these widths, the launcher does waste a lot of height (and looks strange).
It would therefore make sense to define a maximum size after which it would just receive horizontal padding (as illustrated by Xapient)

Comment 5 Eike Hein 2016-08-24 13:41:50 UTC

I agree - what I'd like the VDG to do is work out some guidelines for that we can adapt applets to :-)

Comment 6 andreas 2016-08-27 20:59:04 UTC

good points Xapient

1. launcher
guideline for maximum icon size is needed

2. quicklauncher 
should switch better to the width of a panel

3. taskmanager
scall very good as I think.

4. system tray
didn't work on wide panels the show hide arrow didn't work. should be fixed.

5. time
maximum height should be defined

Comment 7 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-28 11:26:34 UTC

widget-scaling screnshot is how various widget looks like for me in: 

Distribution: KDE neon Developer Edition Unstable Branches
KDE Plasma Version: 5.10.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.37.0
Qt Version: 5.9.1
Kernel Version: 4.10.0-32-generic

Lines below Kicker on screenshot is Icons-only Task Manager.

Bug can be transfer into 'general' category or into more appropriate.

Comment 8 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-28 11:27:20 UTC

Created attachment 107560 [details]
widget-scaling

Comment 9 Eike Hein 2017-08-28 11:27:55 UTC

This was addressed by Plasma 5.10, where the icon now follows the ceiling set in System Settings.