Created attachment 65665 [details] How it looks now Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.2) OS: Linux For a long time, going back to KDE 3 days, I have enjoyed the fact that the tray icons in KDE were displayed much larger than in Windows. Rather than leaving a lot of space above and below the icons, they were sized nearly to the full height of the system tray/taskbar. Sure, there was less space between icons, but that was not a problem at all. Indeed, the larger icons' extra clarity was of much more benefit than having space between and around icons. For a while in KDE 4, I have noticed that the tray initially shows the tray with an outline that separates the widget from the rest of the panel, and has smaller icons as well--but if an app, especially a GTK one, then loads its icon into the tray, the widget's outline disappears, and all the icons are displayed at the larger size, like in Kicker, basically filling the panel vertically. Well, I just updated to 4.7.2, and apparently this behavior was regarded as a bug, and apparently it's been "fixed." Now my system tray always has the outline around it, and all the icons are sized down to have 5-6 pixels of space around each one. Now the details in each icon are not visible--they are less distinctive--and the result of resizing each one makes them look sloppy and ugly. Please restore the old behavior or make it optional. I really do not need--or want--each icon to have such padding around it. I am sad that now the KDE systray has tiny, barely-intelligible icons like the Windows systray. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A (why do I *have* to enter this? Expected Results: N/A (why do I *have* to enter this?
Created attachment 65666 [details] How it used to look
I have this too and it annoys me. Using KDE 4.7.3 Tiny icons look awful. Adam, thank you for noticing that icons from GTK programs make system tray have large icons. I will use this workaround.
Well, you're welcome! But I'm not sure if that workaround still works. On one computer it seems to, but on another I only have the tiny ones, even with a Gtk app in the tray.
it's not gtk or not, it's whether it uses the new dbus protocol or the old xembed one. in any case, as of 4.8 there are no more lines anywhere in the system tray. i'm currently showing only "new" icons in the tray here and they are full height.
This bug has reappeared in 4.10.1. All of my tray icons are now small and ugly. In 4.9 they were fine.
Hello! This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham