Bug 364431 - Tiny icons in 5.7 system tray
Summary: Tiny icons in 5.7 system tray
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: System Tray (show other bugs)
Version: 5.6.95
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2016-06-17 19:52 UTC by Antonio Rojas
Modified: 2016-10-18 03:38 UTC (History)
21 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 5.7.1
Sentry Crash Report:


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Screenshot (9.79 KB, image/png)
2016-06-17 19:52 UTC, Antonio Rojas
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5.7 panel (240.72 KB, image/png)
2016-06-18 16:06 UTC, Martín Lucas Golini
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Screenshot (19.73 KB, image/png)
2016-07-07 04:35 UTC, John Salatas
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Large systray icons on 5.7.1 (22.27 KB, image/png)
2016-07-12 22:43 UTC, André M
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After changes (visual terror) (75.29 KB, image/png)
2016-07-13 12:59 UTC, kikadf
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huge systray icons 5.7.1 (45.17 KB, image/png)
2016-07-13 21:48 UTC, Nikola Schnelle
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Description Antonio Rojas 2016-06-17 19:52:22 UTC
The new systray in 5.7 shows tiny icons with very big margins (at least in high DPI screens)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Antonio Rojas 2016-06-17 19:52:43 UTC
Created attachment 99553 [details]
Screenshot
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-06-18 13:08:58 UTC
Yeah I also have pretty large spacing between icons
Comment 3 Martín Lucas Golini 2016-06-18 16:05:54 UTC
Same problem here. It was working perfectly fine in 5.6. I'm using a retina screen and now the icons look really small.
Comment 4 Martín Lucas Golini 2016-06-18 16:06:05 UTC
Created attachment 99578 [details]
5.7 panel

Before 5.7 the systray icons looked the same size than the taskbar icon.
Comment 5 perrantrevan 2016-07-05 18:30:41 UTC
Same here on 5.7.0 on Arch. 1920*1080 display.
Comment 6 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-07-06 09:27:15 UTC
Git commit 1ba0e6e5ddd598e9b0cf87a654467f97c06b26c5 by Kai Uwe Broulik.
Committed on 06/07/2016 at 09:26.
Pushed by broulik into branch 'Plasma/5.7'.

[System Tray] Increase maximum icon size
FIXED-IN: 5.7.1

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2097

M  +1    -1    applets/systemtray/package/contents/ui/main.qml

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/1ba0e6e5ddd598e9b0cf87a654467f97c06b26c5
Comment 7 John Salatas 2016-07-07 04:35:09 UTC
Created attachment 99911 [details]
Screenshot

I actually prefer the small ones. :(

Spacing seems ok at my case (kde neon). Also with the large icons the language indicator flag is broke. 

See attachment
Comment 8 André M 2016-07-12 22:43:05 UTC
Created attachment 100050 [details]
Large systray icons on 5.7.1

Unfortunatelly, now it is TOO big. Worked fine on my 1366x768 screen on 5.6. 5.7.0 also had no detectable changes, but on 5.7.1 it is occupying all height of the panel and scaling badly (pixels visible on akregator, skype and telegram icons, for example). A border approx. the size of the taskbar icons would be prefered.
Comment 9 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-07-13 12:29:37 UTC
This seems to "break" icons on non-HiDPI screens (they are larger than they was on 5.7.0). See for example http://i.imgur.com/wS0k3jr.png

Any chance to reconsider this patch?
Comment 10 kikadf 2016-07-13 12:53:00 UTC
The new systray icon size is terrible, too big. Nobody tested this change before made the release?
Comment 11 kikadf 2016-07-13 12:59:19 UTC
Created attachment 100064 [details]
After changes (visual terror)
Comment 12 alfaflo 2016-07-13 17:53:32 UTC
(In reply to André Vitor de Lima Matos from comment #8)
> Created attachment 100050 [details]
> Large systray icons on 5.7.1
> 
> Unfortunatelly, now it is TOO big. Worked fine on my 1366x768 screen on 5.6.
> 5.7.0 also had no detectable changes, but on 5.7.1 it is occupying all
> height of the panel and scaling badly (pixels visible on akregator, skype
> and telegram icons, for example). A border approx. the size of the taskbar
> icons would be prefered.

Confirmed - in plasma 5.7.1 now it looks too big. If I reduce panel heigth to reduce icon size, the rest (menu buttons, task manager... gets to small.
My screen: 15,4" with 1680*1050

kind regards
Florian
Comment 13 Mike Goodwin 2016-07-13 18:05:51 UTC
Systray icons are huge now! https://i.imgur.com/kxetVCJ.png

Please fix to make them small the way they were before (like other people are talking about)
Comment 14 Xavier Corredor Llano 2016-07-13 19:31:06 UTC
In plasma 5.7.1 now it looks too BIG, is terrible,.
My display: 14'' with 1920x1080 resolution
Comment 15 TooManyErrors 2016-07-13 20:15:23 UTC
In my opinion, having the tray icons bigger than the Task Manager icons looks bad. Perhaps there should be an update to keep the tray icons a certain size relative to the height/width of panel. A bit like how Windows does it.
Comment 16 Nikola Schnelle 2016-07-13 21:47:05 UTC
Systray icons are huge in 5.7.1.
Comment 17 Nikola Schnelle 2016-07-13 21:48:01 UTC
Created attachment 100082 [details]
huge systray icons 5.7.1
Comment 18 Nikola Schnelle 2016-07-13 21:56:28 UTC
I have found new bug report about this problem (huge systray icons)  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365570
Comment 19 Lemmiwinks 2016-08-02 00:11:49 UTC
I'm now on Plasma 5.7.2 but my systray icons are still much too small and do not scale with taskbar height. Using Fedora 24.
Do I have to reset a certain setting?
Comment 20 Rog131 2016-08-02 06:49:00 UTC
(In reply to Lemmiwinks from comment #19)
> I'm now on Plasma 5.7.2 but my systray icons are still much too small and do
> not scale with taskbar height. Using Fedora 24.
> Do I have to reset a certain setting?

Manually setting the system tray icon size - KDE Forums - system tray icons: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=131736
Comment 21 Thomas Weissel 2016-08-18 19:38:23 UTC
well ... i still don't get it.. 

what exactly is the problem with giving the user a choice ??

i understand that the systemtray icons should scale relative to the systemtray / panel but you could still offer an option to chose between "small" "smallMedium" and "medium" (still relative) without having the user to manualy hack the qml file.. this is against the usual kde philosophy IMHO

some users just don't want the systray icons to be as big as the program starter icons..  there already is a patch..  please reconsider and just apply it..  no harm will follow from this!