When in tablet mode, the system tray get expended and takes up half the panel. This makes the task manager squeeze, which ironically has the effect of making it unusable with a touch screen. Plasma 5.25.4
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Amazing. It's a tough problem to solve because there is only so much space on the panel, so when it already has a huge number of items in desktop mode, the results are probably going to end up worse in Touch mode. I'm open to suggestions.
Created attachment 152187 [details] Enabling the Touch Mode completely collapses the task manager For me, the tray icons become so giant that the task manager collapses to a few pixels of size :)
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > Amazing. > > It's a tough problem to solve because there is only so much space on the > panel, so when it already has a huge number of items in desktop mode, the > results are probably going to end up worse in Touch mode. I'm open to > suggestions. TBH, I'd just revert this until there is a way to rescale *all* panel items equally. Right now, some items expand (system tray), some shrink (task manager), and all others stay the same size. This is at the very least inconsistent (why are system tray icons more important than any other panel item)?
The thing is that there isn't really a generic way to fix this problem. It's simply another variant of the age-old issue of Task Manager icons shrinking to an unusable size when there's not enough space on the panel because everything else is too big and has a fixed size (Bug 447603). In Touch Mode, System Tray icons become larger so that they become large enough to touch with a fingertip, and this triggers Bug 447603.