When panel is high enough system tray appears like this:
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/3245/systraybig.png

Now, when resizing the panel to make it smaller it turns like this:
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6249 ... ysmall.png

Isn't there a way to make the system tray look the same as it is when the panel is big, but having a small panel? By the way, when log in to kde, the system tray actually looks like that, but after the kmix, etc icons are loaded it takes the "normal" appearance.
I actually like the appearance it has when the panel is big, but i hate big panels, so, isn't there a way to make it have that appearance¡? if not, could i request that feature to be added?

Thanks

I do not know why it does that, but it is likely a bug ( the larger one does actually look nicer.... ) please report it at bugs.kde.org.

As far as I know, it's a feature (don't draw top and bottom border aren't drawn when the system tray is small enough). Unfortunately I don't know if it's possible to disable; if it isn't, you might want to post an idea in Brainstorm.

I've been looking around to see if i can disable it, but i couldm't find anything, i think i'll just post it on brainstorm.
Thanks anyway.

By the way, i still don't know why when i initially log in, the system tray appears with all borders, as if it was placed on a bigger panel, and only after the kmix, network manager and etc are loded does it remove the top and bottom borders. Maybe it's the size of the icons that resize the system tray to make it bigger.

I would say it is a minimal legible size of icons as well. To prevent them being even smaller, devs might have removed the border.