KDE 4 (yes, again...): what features are you using?

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:54:03 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:03:50 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> <SNIP>
> >>
> >>> The only zone that I know that acts like that is the systray - and you
> >>> can hide icons in the systray  if you need to make it smaller.
> >>
> >> I am totally unable to make the systray smaller.  It appears that the
> >> default size is 100% (of the panel length) in KDE/Plasma-4 rather than
> >> the 0 in KDE/Kicker-3.5
> >
> > How odd!  On both my Mandriva laptop and F10 netbook the systray expands
> > and contracts with the number of icons shown.  LOn the F10 netbook I can
> > get a Systray Settings dialogue, from where I can elect to hide some of
> > the icons. When I do it retracts to the correct size for the remaining
> > ones.
>
> It only works that way (and, therefore, appears to work correctly) when
> you have it in the same panel as the TaskManager.  I find that an
> 'overhead console' is quite convenient -- or it would be if it wasn't
> filled with the SystemTray.  My best guess is that they both have 100%
> as the default size but the TaskManager has a higher priority.
> Actually, the TaskManager only appears to have 100% as the default
> width.  The default height works correctly when it is in a vertical
> panel.  However (drifting OT) the digital clock does not work correctly
> (4.2.0) in a vertical panel (the height expands to fill the available
> space). :-(  Are these really driven by common library functions?

Did some experimentation on the F10 netbook.  I can confirm that removing the 
task manager causes the systray to expand to fill the available space.  If 
this hasn't been bugzilla'd it should be.

I couldn't confirm the clock problem, though.  It looked absolutely fine to me 
in vertical, with or without the task manager.

Anne
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