Hey there,

I've been slowly switching my family and friends from 3.5 to 4.2 and since out of those people I have 6 retired people (anyone tells me that Linux is hard to use are always invited to meet for tech support my mom and aunt who never used a computer before they turned 70), this means I have to deal with people who have trouble seeing and the number one thing Im asked is "Can you make this/that bigger?"

So their desktop icons are huge and the font options for menu, taskbar and so on are exactly how they want them: BIG!

There is only one problem: the icons in the system tray stay small and most of these people cannot tell the Kopete icon from the Skype one at that size.
Even when I make the taskbar height bigger, the icons simply form into another row but stay small and dont fill out empty space above and below it.

I want the system tray icons to be as big as the launcher button, the Quick Acces icon and the Device Notifier on the same taskbar so that seniors and people with bad vision can see them.

Is there a way to do this?


Thanks.

As far as I know, no. The system tray icons are currently painted by the application, which means that Plasma doesn't have any control over them. However, KDE has introduced a new dbus-based system tray implementation - some applications already use this new system in 4.3 (KMixer, the notification icon, krandr) - which gives the power to the system tray. Hopefully we'll see this improved in the future.

You haven't thought about changing the resolution?