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Month: May 2012

Re: [trinity-devel] 2-row systray -> nice space saver for kicker

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 14:00:47 -0500
> On 05/02/2012 01:15 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> The only patch I see is a change to the default system icon size, from
>> 22
>> pixels to 16 pixels.  The system tray has always (confirmed on 3.5.12,
>> and
>> probably works on earlier versions than this) been able to expand to
>> multiple rows if sufficient vertical height was given to it.
>>
>> To change your system tray icon size:
>> KControl->Appearance and Themes->Icons->Advanced->System Tray Icons
>>
>> Tim
>
> Ahh, that was it. I have a 36px kicker, so when the default systray icon
> went
> from 22->16, I automatically got 2 rows. (still a neat trick!)

Be aware that while TDE applications support nonstandard (!= 22x22 pixel)
icon sizes, most other applications do NOT.  TDE tries hard to resize
these other applications as needed, but it doesn't always work properly,
and usually the resized icons are harder to see / blurrier than the native
icons.

The reason I know this is that I originally wrote the icon resize feature
for TDE, and did not change the default size to 16x16 for these reasons.
;-)

Tim