The vertical space required to force 2 rows to appear is greater than the earlier version (non-QML), also at that point the system tray now switches to 2 rows whereas earlier it stayed as a single row. Not a lot of additional space used but enough to notice Not much of a regression/bug but just thought I'd document it Reproducible: Always
This is intentional behavior - the new applet is a little stricter about not using row configurations that it doesn't have the space to look nice in. This also simplifies the code (and so makes it less error-prone) because both the opportunistic and the user-directed row overflow use the same thresholds when calculating just how many rows can fit. However, it's true that it would be nice to wrap consistently with the tray.
be nice to use a little less vertical space, obviously not a biggy and thanks for the reply
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 321849 ***