Bug 408740

Summary:	Unify spacing between systray items and Application Menu items
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	b8h8vm0lf
Component:	System Tray widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	materka, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.16.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Spacing in AppMenu Spacing in tray by default

Description b8h8vm0lf 2019-06-15 13:55:41 UTC

SUMMARY

Just a wish: make spacing between icon in system tray adjustable through plasmoid settings.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.0

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-06-15 16:29:26 UTC

Can you describe why you want this feature?

Comment 2 b8h8vm0lf 2019-06-16 06:33:24 UTC

Created attachment 120907 [details]
Spacing in AppMenu

Comment 3 b8h8vm0lf 2019-06-16 06:33:50 UTC

Created attachment 120908 [details]
Spacing in tray by default

Comment 4 b8h8vm0lf 2019-06-16 06:44:58 UTC

There is noticeable visual inconsistency.
Spacing between items in AppMenu is 16 px.
Spacing between icons in tray is 10 px by default.
Aside of inconsistency, I just don't like such tight placed icons in tray.

Consistent spacing is one of most important things that makes MacOS look&feel so great.
I've saw a bunch of screenshots where people trying to do some macos-like interface do a manual overwrite of spacing value in QML file.
I think we need either setting or good auto adjusting among all items on panel.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2019-06-16 14:29:06 UTC

Thanks. It sounds like the resol solution is to improve and unity the spacing, not to make it configurable. That would give you an easy tool to fix it for yourself, but wouldn't fix the problem for anyone else by default, and would even give people a way to make it worse.

Let's use this bug to track that.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2019-06-16 14:29:25 UTC

(changing status accordingly)

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2021-03-09 04:27:05 UTC

System Tray item spacing seems to be a bit of a sore subject. We tried increasing the spacing a few Plasma versions ago (not to the level you're proposing) and a lot of people just about hit the roof! So I think we won't be able to do that, sorry.