Hello,

I am running the latest Mint with KDE 5.8 and I am trying to change the kicker widget height on the panel. My panel is vertically oriented and quite wide (in order to display captions in the task manager items). This makes the launcher quite large. I would prefer a small launcher, 45 px max to save the space. I went through files in the /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids folder but failed to locate the proper file to edit. Which files should I edit and in which way?

Thanks you.

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$ locate kicker
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/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kicker
...

If the problem is huge icon (compact representation of the KIcker):


One way is to add size constraits: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquicklayouts-ov ... onstraints

Adding maximum height to the /org.kde.plasma.kicker/contents/ui/CompactRepresentation.qml; line 51:

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root.Layout.maximumHeight = 45;

After the plasmashell restart the icon maximum is 45:




Notes

Plasma upgrade will overwrite the /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/...
User can copy the plasmoids to the ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/...
After you edit the plasma qml scripts you will need to restart the plasmashell.

Earlier

- change size of application dashboard: viewtopic.php?f=66&t=133156
- Menu size. Resize or going to be Resizable?: viewtopic.php?f=289&t=128771

That worked splendidly. Thank you very much.