i'm not sure if this is the right category because it doesn't matter if i use the application menu, kicker, or kickoff or anything else... the application launcher icon becomes ridiculously huge if you scale the width of a vertical panel to more than 128px it wastes to much space and while it makes sense to have such a broad panel for the taskmanager (so it can display program names) it makes absolutely no sense to have the application launcher icon covering a third of the panel... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.move the default panel to the left side of the screen (vertical panel) 2.stretch the panel width to more than 128 px Actual Results: the icon gets bigger and bigger until it covers all of the panel Expected Results: the icon should have a fixed maximum width and height and spacing to the other plasmoids and NOT waste all of the available space
Created attachment 100687 [details] screenshot of the side panel with huge icons
Created attachment 100688 [details] how it probably should look like
VDG, can you comment?
The problem is real. Vertical panels tend to be given greater width than horizontal ones are given height, because widgets like e.g. the clock don't work in a very narrow panel. With these widths, the launcher does waste a lot of height (and looks strange). It would therefore make sense to define a maximum size after which it would just receive horizontal padding (as illustrated by Xapient)
I agree - what I'd like the VDG to do is work out some guidelines for that we can adapt applets to :-)
good points Xapient 1. launcher guideline for maximum icon size is needed 2. quicklauncher should switch better to the width of a panel 3. taskmanager scall very good as I think. 4. system tray didn't work on wide panels the show hide arrow didn't work. should be fixed. 5. time maximum height should be defined
widget-scaling screnshot is how various widget looks like for me in: Distribution: KDE neon Developer Edition Unstable Branches KDE Plasma Version: 5.10.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.37.0 Qt Version: 5.9.1 Kernel Version: 4.10.0-32-generic Lines below Kicker on screenshot is Icons-only Task Manager. Bug can be transfer into 'general' category or into more appropriate.
Created attachment 107560 [details] widget-scaling
This was addressed by Plasma 5.10, where the icon now follows the ceiling set in System Settings.