Bug 436219

Summary: Icons-Only Task Manager's icons shrinks too much when the rest of the panel is crowded
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: micro_charly
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task ManagerAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: nate, niccolo.venerandi, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description micro_charly 2021-04-26 15:25:39 UTC
Created attachment 137928 [details]
A screenshot of the wrong beaviour

SUMMARY
Icons-Only Task Manager's icons shrinks too much when a lot of voices from "Global Menu" appears on the Panel, despite there is still a lot of free space. This make difficult to use, especially on smaller screens.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Setup Panel in this way:"Window Title"-"Global Menu"-"Panel Spacer"-"Icons Only Task Manager"-"System Tray"-"Clock"
2. Open few programs
3. Open a program with a log list of menu's voices

OBSERVED RESULT
The Icons-Only Task Manager's icons shrinks too much, making them hard to distinguish from each other.

EXPECTED RESULT
Icons-Only Task Manager's icons should start shrinking just when the Global Menu voices touch them, or a little bit early

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.16-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 micro_charly 2021-04-26 15:31:55 UTC
Created attachment 137930 [details]
A screenshot of the wrong behaviour (new)
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-04-27 19:20:31 UTC
Cannot reproduce FWIW.
Comment 3 micro_charly 2021-05-01 17:27:43 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> Cannot reproduce FWIW.

(In reply to micro_charly from comment #0)
> Created attachment 137928 [details]
> A screenshot of the wrong beaviour
> 
> SUMMARY
> Icons-Only Task Manager's icons shrinks too much when a lot of voices from
> "Global Menu" appears on the Panel, despite there is still a lot of free
> space. This make difficult to use, especially on smaller screens.
> 
> STEPS TO REPRODUCE
> 1. Setup Panel in this way:"Window Title"-"Global Menu"-"Panel
> Spacer"-"Icons Only Task Manager"-"System Tray"-"Clock"
> 2. Open few programs
> 3. Open a program with a log list of menu's voices
> 
> OBSERVED RESULT
> The Icons-Only Task Manager's icons shrinks too much, making them hard to
> distinguish from each other.
> 
> EXPECTED RESULT
> Icons-Only Task Manager's icons should start shrinking just when the Global
> Menu voices touch them, or a little bit early
> 
> SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
> 
> Operating System: Arch Linux
> KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
> KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
> Qt Version: 5.15.2
> Kernel Version: 5.11.16-arch1-1
> OS Type: 64-bit
> Graphics Platform: X11
> 
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I want to add new relevant informations. Without panel spacer the behavior does not manifest. With latte-dock and his default spacer neither.
Comment 4 veggero 2021-05-01 17:29:47 UTC
Can confirm
Comment 5 micro_charly 2021-07-14 08:08:51 UTC
My screen is a 12,5 inches 1920*1080 pixels. 
In screen settings "global scale" parameter is set to 162,5%. In Font settings force Font DPI parameter is enable and set to 156.
With this configuration i can have an enough small interface ad still a nice viewable text for the inch-age of my monitor.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2023-04-11 21:57:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 447603 ***