[Panel-devel] [Bug 154565] New: Plasma applet size can be made unusably small

[William M.Hilton]

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           Summary: Plasma applet size can be made unusably small
           Product: plasma
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: panel-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: wmhilton gmail com


Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I noticed the Icon applet seems to enforce a minimum size when resizing. This is an excellent idea for ALL applets, because it becomes impossible to reasonably display some plasmoids within a certain pixel size. Also, interactive plasmoids cease to be usable at incredibly small sizes. E.g. nothing is useful at 2 px wide, a launcher icon may be usable at 10px, while the Calculator plasmoid would need a still larger min size to operate properly. Each applet should be required to specify a minimum size (in pixels) needed to function nicely.

(I think the size limit for the Icon applet is a little large, because much smaller icons would still be usable, but the idea is very good.)