Hello everyone,

I'm using a panel on the right side of my screen with SmoothTasks in it. I have a few launchers in SmoothTasks, and when I launch an application that has no launcher, it gets added to the panel with the launchers. What I'd like to have is the panel resizing automatically : the minimum size would be for the launchers, and when I launch another application, the panel would grow in order to have room for the icon of the application.

Unfortunaltely, what I actually get is the panel always keeping the same size, and the icons of the launchers and apps get smaller so that they fit in the panel. I tried to define a minimum and a maximum size to my panel but it does nothing at all, the panel never resizes. Is there a way to make it resize dynamically ?

I'm on KDE 4.7.1.

I have exactly the same problem. I thinks it is a problem in smooth tasks since it is not updated for a lot of time. Though i would like to see this fixed or at list a workaround. The better would be the default task manager with more options since it is little customizable.

Well on my computer, I have the same problem with IconTasks, Flexibletask and even with the default task manager, so I think the problem belongs to Plasma. The only app that got the panel resizing dynamically is Fancy Tasks.

Yes you are right. I tested some other applets and the panel doesnt auto-resizes.

The panel always stays with the size set at "minimum panel size slider" and the "maximum panel size slider" is broken - doesnt do nothing.

Could this issue be due to the fact that in, for example, the Icon-only Task Manager, the icon size for the applications can only be set as a percentage. This causes them to squash down to fit in the panel, rather than forcing the panel to expand. I suspect that if it was possible to set a fixed size for the application icons in the settings of the Icon-only Task Manager, then the panel would indeed expand as expected...

By the way, I'm currently using KDE 4.10.1.

@rascas: I believe that if required by the widgets, the panel will expand. However it is possible that in this case, widgets which are too flexible (such as the task manager) are not forcing it to expand appropriately. You may wish to file a bug report at bugs.kde.org.