Bug 511439

Summary: Plasma unnecessarily forces large icon spacing even when panel is already very thick
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: ryu.ketsueki
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgetsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: ASSIGNED ---    
Severity: normal CC: nate, qydwhotmail
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 6.4.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description ryu.ketsueki 2025-10-31 19:30:41 UTC 
I understand the need for the icon spacing on the task manager to be set to large if the panel height is small. However, I configured the panel height in my case to be 77, which already makes the icons to be pretty big and touch friendly. There is no need for the icon spacing to be set forcibly to large, other than take unnecessary screen space. Could there be a way for the icons only task manager to calculate if it really is necessary to make the icon spacing that large when the icons are already big enough for touchscreens? Or perhaps add an option to override touch mode forcing the icons only task manager to have the icon spacing set to large.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-10-31 20:13:47 UTC 
That's a good point. We can probably stop doing this when the panel is already thick.