Bug 430882

Summary: Please make icon sizes (or at least row count) configurable
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Alexander Kernozhitsky <sh200105>
Component: System Tray widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: agrantnmac, kde.shieling, materka, nate, phd
Priority: LO    
Version First Reported In: 5.20.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alexander Kernozhitsky 2020-12-28 07:58:31 UTC
SUMMARY

I am using Plasma with vertical panel layout. The system tray icon size is now hard-coded to smallMedium (which is 24px), and is too small for me.

Fortunately, Plasma 5.20 adds a feature to fit the icon sizes to panel width. But in vertical panel case (which has ~80px width for me), the icons become too large.

So, it would be nice to have an option to configure icon sizes in system tray. An alternative option would be to allow setting the number of rows for system tray icons.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.9.0-5-amd64
OS Type: 64-bit
Comment 1 Simplissimus 2022-04-14 20:27:22 UTC
Yes, please!
The current situation is really clumsy: you have to choose between almost indistinguishably small icons -especially if they have a similar form, like Kdeconect's and Klipper's, e. g.- or disparately big fat ones that waste a lot of our panel space.
For example, my screen is 27", the panel is 100 px high, but my sistray shows a 4x3 minuscule icons matrix which takes around 2,5 cm wide. If I configure the systray widget to scale the icons to the panel's height, I get a icons row that takes like 25% of the screen's width because the icons are like my little finger's nail thick. The ideal thing would be a 2 rows tray with medium sized icons that keep a balance between whats clearly distinguishable -the fact that icons designers have renounced to use colors doesn't help either- and what's not an unnecessary waste of space.