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vishalrao Registered Member Posts 157 Karma 0 OS	[Plasma] Bigger icons for panel when on side of widescreen display Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:38 am I've recently started to place the panel vertically orientated to the left side of my widescreen display so that I get maximum vertical space for app windows. It's the wave of the future people! I like the fact that the buttons for the running apps in the panel become square but the icons remain small with just a few letters of text showing. See the top-left portion of the screenshot: This post is to request better/cleaner UI for panel placed to the side of the screen rather than the default location of at the bottom. To make the icons fill up the square portion of the running app buttons... Last edited by bcooksley on Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:14 pm, edited 1 time in total. "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie."
vishalrao Registered Member Posts 157 Karma 0 OS	RE: Panel: Bigger icons when on side of widescreen display Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:04 pm Nobody interested? "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie."
KejPi Registered Member Posts 119 Karma 0 OS	RE: Panel: Bigger icons when on side of widescreen display Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:13 pm I would like to have it also on left edge of the screen but I don't like the behaviour at all KejPi, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
Mamonetti Registered Member Posts 88 Karma 0 OS	RE: Panel: Bigger icons when on side of widescreen display Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:32 pm Maybe you need to put (only) your taskbar in another horizontal panel. Developers can't do miracles with text orientation
vishalrao Registered Member Posts 157 Karma 0 OS	RE: [Plasma] Bigger icons for panel when on side of widescreen display Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:09 am Thats the thing, since the app icons are now square instead of long when panel is vertical to the left, the panel should only display large icons and no text "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie."
fberger Registered Member Posts 5 Karma 0 OS	RE: [Plasma] Bigger icons for panel when on side of widescreen display Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:26 am You can use STasks (kde-look seems to be down at the moment?) to only show the icons. But yeah, I'd also like it to be integrated with the default Task Manager plasmoid. Edit: Screenshot of it in action Last edited by fberger on Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
vishalrao Registered Member Posts 157 Karma 0 OS	RE: [Plasma] Bigger icons for panel when on side of widescreen display Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:22 pm OK I'm actually going to try building kdebase-workspace from source after modifying the following file to try to get large icon and no text in a vertical panel http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase ... iew=markup I'm running kubuntu 9.04 beta with KDE 4.2.2 Last edited by vishalrao on Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:22 pm, edited 1 time in total. "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie."
Madman Registered Member Posts 593 Karma 1 OS	RE: [Plasma] Bigger icons for panel when on side of widescreen display Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:20 pm Any luck with this? Madman, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
vishalrao Registered Member Posts 157 Karma 0 OS	RE: [Plasma] Bigger icons for panel when on side of widescreen display Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:00 pm Yes, somewhat! Edited this file: websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/tasks/abstracttaskitem.cpp In the iconRect() function simply commented out the line which was setting icon size to one-third. In the drawTextLayout() simply returned without doing anything. See the small icons before: Now see the large icons: Some apps still show small icons like VLC and OpenOffice, but I'm hoping KDE moderators/developers will consider this UI idea "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie."