[Bug 165937] New: pager on a panel is not vertically centered

[Thomas Zander]

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           Summary: pager on a panel is not vertically centered
           Product: plasma
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: panel-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: zander kde org


Version:            (using Devel)

Hi,

I have a xinerama/widescreen setup meaning my pager icons represent a 3290x1200 pixel desktop. There are some layouting issues which makes the pager look less-than-perfect.

The pager does not seem to have a maximum width. So if I have a panel that is 150 pixels tall, the pager calculates the width of each virtual desktop to be pretty wide (because of my 2:1 aspect ratio) and only ~5½ virtual desktops show up before my panel is completely filled.  I suggest to have some sort of maximum size or configuration or something. Maybe just go to 2 rows when each pager-panel gets wider than, say, 120px.

The spacing between the top of the panel and the top of the pager area is constant. So if I have a pager that is 200 pixels tall I have a nice spacing, but if I have a 40 pixels tall panel the 16 pixels spacing at the top makes everything look weird. If my panel gets even smaller the pager doesn't even show the bottom of each virtual desktop anymore...
I would prefer there to be no spacing at all. (like in kde3) see Bug 159742 which for some reason thinks that having a margin is wanted. Not sure why ;)