[Bug 165288] Lock/logout buttons are too large if the panel heigth is reduced

[Loic Marteau]

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------- Additional Comments From loic.marteau gmail com  2008-06-29 14:47 -------
Hi Anne-Marie

In fact the author of the bug report talk about the (too big) size of 
the lock/logout icon in panel

Lock logout take less space when panel is big -> lock Logout is 
vertically layouted
than unfortunaly when panel is small -> lock logout horizontally layouted

Since 4.1 lock/logout is horizontal by default.

 > - keep the vertical layout as much as possible
 > - reduce the space between the button in vertical layout to be able 

to shrink the panel more

dont know if it is possible ?!
We already have :
m_layout->setContentsMargins(0,0,0,0);
m_layout->setSpacing(0);

is there other things than we can use to reduce the space ?

 > - make it configurable to use horizontal/vertical layout


if i understand well what we have talked on mailing list lock logout 
will let user to have more actions if he wants, don't know if we should 
add this too for 4.2
 
 > - use smaller icons in horizontal layout (?)


For me this is a generic problem with the size of icons in the panel.
Reduce the size only for this applet will not be very consistent in my 
opinion and we damned all knows that users want  consistencies :D (they 
are right).

We have already talked about that in the desktop (the generic problem, 
no specifically for lock-logout)
The idea is to have something like this
http://nuno-icons.com//images/estilo/imagefolders2.png

I just quote Aaron since he has explain this very well :
 > i think this is really up to the Containment, in this case the Panel, to
 > provide some mechanism for varying the size of select applets. perhaps
 > something like zones of differing height.


 > sebas and alexis have both working on graphics items groupers that 

might be
 > applicable in such situations.