Simple one. I used to know how to do this but forgotten. New 4.9 update. How do you get the left side Places icons back to flexible size, instead of set to default small size.

Thanks.

I can confirm this behaviour under KDE Trunk.

Think I should have put this in the Help section, bcooksley. I remember I had this before and I'm sure there is a way to get the flexible sized icons back. Just can't remember what it was I did.

Moved to Help forum. I've done a check of the Dolphin settings and it does not appear to have an option, at least at the moment, for this.

According to these:

viewtopic.php?f=232&t=102599

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301959

It's deliberate, which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I now struggle to see the left side Places and it looks ridiculous. Brilliant thinking whoever.

Based upon the dates of those commits, they will have made it into KDE 4.9. As a result, if you change the system wide "small icon" size, then the size of the icons in the Dolphin panel should expand to that size. This can be done in System Settings > Application Appearance > Icons.

Thanks, that bumps me up one size before it starts making the small icons elsewhere look really odd and out of place, but it's better than a poke in the throat at the moment.

I can only hope there is a solution in the pipeline and will introduced sometime soon. I mean how come you can adjust the Toolbar icon size in Dolphin but not Places? And I don't mean a universal Toolbar / Places icon size solution. I mean the two working independently as people have different requirements.

Sundance Kid wrote:I mean how come you can adjust the Toolbar icon size in Dolphin but not Places?

Don't bring bad ideas to the dolphin designers...

This fixed size is meant to be a fix because there were people complaining about the auto-resizing. I didn't like the auto-resizing either - but just because the icons became too small! So this "fix" made the situation even worse!

At least the places icons now follow the "small icons". As a temporary solution that's an acceptable workaround but no real solution. My small icons are set to 32 and I really don't want them to be bigger, they look good in 32, bigger "small icons" are kind of optically disturbing for me and mess up the layout of some apps. But I'd love to have the places icons in 48 or 64, I always resized the dolphin window and the sidebar that way that the icons had that size. 32 is a bit too small for places icons IMHO. Well, I can live with it but don't like it. There are other requirements for a sidebar than for a context menu (or a toolbar as you mentioned)...

As you said:

as people have different requirements.

Therefore the best solution from a user's point of view IMHO would probably be to let the user set a maximum and a minimum size for the places icons and in that range the auto-resizing takes place. If someone doesn't want resizing s/he sets the minimum and maximum to the same size - voilà, every user would be content, every user's requirements were met.

TBH I don't care how they do it, provided they do it. If they can't do it dynamically then a separate "Toolbar Settings > Icon Size" for Places would do (provided it's not made universal with "Toolbar Settings > Icon Size"). You've already got right click options on the word "Places" on the left side, put it there.

I have only now realized that Places are flexible in Konqueror

Sorry for replying so late. We'll make the icon size configurable via an "Icon Size" submenu in the Places Panel context menu in KDE 4.10. If you want to change the size before that, you can either configure the "Small" icon size in the global KDE settings or (in KDE 4.9.2, to be released this week) edit Dolphin's config file, see

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301959#c72