Bug 399040

Summary: Lack of option to configure task buttons spacing/paddings in Latte tasks
Product: [Unmaintained] lattedock Reporter: miyaokamarina <miyaokamarina>
Component: plasmoidAssignee: Michail Vourlakos <mvourlakos>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.8.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description miyaokamarina 2018-09-25 01:52:13 UTC 
SUMMARY

Lack of option to configure task buttons spacing/padding in Latte tasks.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Latte panel settings.
2. Enable advanced settings.
3. Try to find an option to add spacing/padding to task buttons / pined items.

EXPECTED RESULT

Clear set of options to add horizontal and vertical spacing between buttons and padding inside button.

ACTUAL RESULT

No such options.


SOFTWARE VERSIONS
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.13.5.
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0 (?).
Qt Version: 5.11.2.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I have the following use case:

I have only one 20px height panel at the top of screen which combines both global menu, task panel, tray, other widgets. It's great because it efficiently uses both vertical and horizontal space of the screen, but clicking the buttons on taskbar becomes literally pixelhunt. It's more frequent action than clicking the tray icons, so buttons must have larger area. But Latte enforces buttons to be square, so they become inaccessible 20x20 squares which hard to point and click.
Comment 1 Michail Vourlakos 2018-09-25 07:21:39 UTC 
there is no way to adjust the vertical margins, you have only two choices:
a. use the default one or
b. shrink thickness margins to minimum from Tweaks page
c. use a bigger applet size from Appearance page

for the horizontal margins you can use from Appearance page -> Applets distance, in order to increase the space between tasks and applets. Applets distance doesnt apply to plasma taskmanagers only to Latte taskmanager and single icon applets
Comment 2 miyaokamarina 2018-09-25 07:35:14 UTC 
Oh, that's work almost as expected, but it was unclear that `Applets Distance` option also affects tasks, as well as that it affects paddings rather than margins.

By adjusting vertical paddings, I meant adjusting them in vertical docks. I think `Applets Distance` option will affect them as expected.