I would like to use the application dashboard (aka kicker dashboard?) in plasma 5.6.4. What stops me is that the size of fonts (Type to search, Applications list on the rhs) are too big. Is there an easy way to change this.

As an aside, I think combining the dashboard with present all windows (or desktop grid) would bring plasma very close to the awesome dashboard of gnome. I could not use actos dashboard (which I think does this) on plasma 5.6.4.

This is still an issue for me. The application dashboard has too big fonts and icons for it to be useful to me. Any workarounds?

If something is not working

You could file bug reports at the KDE tracker: https://bugs.kde.org


Plasma 5 plasmoids

Plasma 5 is using qml scripts to draw the plasmoids. More of the qml: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML

Plasmoid qml scripts are at: /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/

DashboardRepresentation.qml is at: /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kicker/contents/ui/DashboardRepresentation.qml


Icon size

With the Plasma 5.8.4 the icon sizes are calculated at DashboardRepresentation.qml lines 41 (screen size) and line 43 (icon size for the screen size).

Plasma 5 icon sizes: https://api.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-f ... Units.html

small
smallMedium
medium
large
huge
enormous

Editing line 43 - Picture with units.iconSizes.small and units.iconSizes.enormous:




Search font size

Text QML Type: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-text.html

Search font size is set at line 214:

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font.pointSize: dummyHeading.font.pointSize * 1.5

The search text with the factor 1.5 and 0.5:




Application labels font size

The label list font size can be changed by setting the font point size - at here addding line 739:

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font.pointSize: 8

Label list with the default and point size 8:




Note

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