KDE 4 (yes, again...): what features are you using?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 26 08:16:05 GMT 2009
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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