Strange applet size behavior in Contact Applet

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:54 AM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> 2011/10/3 Nicolas Lécureuil <nicolas.lecureuil at free.fr>:
>> Le 03/10/2011 23:53, Francesco a écrit :
>>>
>>> On Monday 03 October 2011 23:34:36 Nicolas Lécureuil wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Le 03/10/2011 23:27, Alin Marin Elena a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have exactly the same.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alin
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon 03 Oct 2011 23:17:52 Francesco wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        I'm writing to ask if you too experience the same problem I
>>>>>> do[1].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As you can see, after latest KDE update, my contact applet has started
>>>>>> showing avatars as a 50x50 whilst it should be a 128x128.
>>>>>> No code affecting the size of the applet has been touched. I want to
>>>>>> know if this problem is affecting others as well as me before posting
>>>>>> to the plasma-dev mailing list for explanations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm currently running Arch Linux on KDE 4.7.1 with Qt 4.7.4
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        nwoki
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] http://postimage.org/image/1ify4qh9g/
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>> i have the same kind of pb when i add the applet in the systray ( kde
>>>> 4.7.1 )
>>>
>>> The applet is not made to work in systray
>>
>> works perfectly here :) ( after resized because of the pb mentionned here ).
>> what are the cons of having it on the systray ? because once installed on
>> the machine you are allowed to add it on the systray when configuring the
>> systray.
>
> Whilst it does work in the sys-tray it /should/ also work everywhere else.
> Just because we have a nice work-around it doesn't mean it's not
> currently fucked.
> AFAIK we can't make it only available in the system tray - and even if
> we could it's not a solution.
>
> Anyway I have some good news on the contact applet breaking:
>
> When I was shutting down my PC plasma crashed.
>
> Now I've rebooted I only get tiny avatars in the contact applet.
> This heavily it implies it's plasma's fault and it screws up it's own
> config somehow.
> I haven't reset my .plasmarc file, so I'll try and keep a copy of it
> in a broken state so we can see what's wrong.

Update: I think I was wrong about the cause. I'd also upgraded to 4.7.1

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