[Bug 161904] New: entries in the taskbar in plasma panel are too small and narrow

[Janet]

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           Summary: entries in the taskbar in plasma panel are too small and
                    narrow
           Product: plasma
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: panel
        AssignedTo: panel-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: bugzilla kerridis de


Version:           4.0.71 (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Everytime I start an application the entries in the taskbar get smaller (and do not increase when applications are closed). By now I have a (wild guess) icons size of 4-8 and a greyed out text of which only the first half letter is visible (in two rows...). Much space between those fragments. I really cannot distinguish between the taskbar entries so alas for me it is completely useless the way it is now. Please don't change the icon size automatically but instead let the user decide how big the icons in the taskbar shall be. Or let the user set a minimum size the icons won't go beyond. It also seems a little weird just to have two half letters of the application name displayed when there's so much space left in the taskbar. 
A taskbar's job is to show the running tasks and let the user switch between them. But that job is not done when the user cannot distinguish between the running tasks.