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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 14:32:53 -0500
> On 05/02/2012 03:00 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>> 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.
>> ;-)
>
> current Nm-applet (uses gtk-3.0) has this issue of not resizing/drawing
> correctly, I don't know if it's related.
>
> Here is a screenshot. The weird half outlined box is what is supposed to
> be nm-applet.
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> Calvin.

Me.

Tim