<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Liberation Serif'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Tuesday 19 May 2009 06:49:25 D. R. Evans wrote:<br>
> Rick Miles said the following at 05/18/2009 01:45 PM :<br>
> > <snip><br>
> ><br>
> >> have you tried to increase panel height?(if you use horizontal panel)<br>
> >> quicklaunch sarts using multiple rows only if panel height is enough<br>
> >> to fit them.<br>
> ><br>
> > <snip><br>
> > Thanks for that, I didn't realise a couple mor pixels made that much of a<br>
> > difference :^)<br>
><br>
> Although since the icons are SVG (I think) one does wonder why it's<br>
> necessary to impose an artificial limit to the size. There seem to be<br>
> several places on KDE4 (this being one such) where the size of icons seems<br>
> to be limited for no obvious reason.<br>
><br>
> I thought that using SVG meant that one can make icons very small before<br>
> they become practically indistinguishable. Maybe my understanding is wrong,<br>
> though.<br>
><br>
> Doc<br>
I do not remember exactly how it was in kde-4.2.2 but I did not have to do any panel resize after logging into a new account. Default worked in 4.2.2 although nothing was right in 4.2.1. <br>
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Cheers,<br>
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