Hello everyone :)
After seeing Q4OS with its big icons in Kicker's taskbar I've been searching far and wide but haven't been able to figure out how to achieve this using plain TDE on Debian. I managed to make the buttons themselves bigger by adjusting '~/.trinity/share/config/ktaskbarrc' with:
[General] MinimumButtonHeight=38
However, icons on the taskbar buttons stay small (16 px). Can somebody enlighten me which setting Q4OS is using here to enlarge the icons on the taskbar buttons? Or are they using a patched version of Kicker that is not available on Debian?
Best regards,
Leskala
said Leskala via tde-users:
| However, icons on the taskbar buttons stay small (16 px). Can somebody | enlighten me which setting Q4OS is using here to enlarge the icons on | the taskbar buttons? Or are they using a patched version of Kicker that | is not available on Debian?
KControl > Appearance & Themes > Icons > Advanced > Panel buttons
Set size there. -- dep
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dep wrote:
said Leskala via tde-users: | However, icons on the taskbar buttons stay small (16 px). Can somebody | enlighten me which setting Q4OS is using here to enlarge the icons on | the taskbar buttons? Or are they using a patched version of Kicker that | is not available on Debian?
KControl > Appearance & Themes > Icons > Advanced > Panel buttons
Set size there.
dep
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This is already set to 48. For me this only affects the TDE Menu (formerly K Menu) icon and launcher icon sizes. The icons on the taskbar displaying the window buttons stay at 16.
Best regards, Leskala
Hello, Leskala,
Judging from the taskbar code, 16x16 is hard-coded there (a bad idea IMO). If it were not, you could change the icon size using the "Small Icon" option in the Icons sections of TDE Control Centre (probably a bad idea too).
You should consider opening a bug here: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/issues
-- Mavridis Philippe
On 2021/08/10 6:51:28 AM, Leskala via tde-users wrote:
Hello everyone :)
After seeing Q4OS with its big icons in Kicker's taskbar I've been searching far and wide but haven't been able to figure out how to achieve this using plain TDE on Debian. I managed to make the buttons themselves bigger by adjusting '~/.trinity/share/config/ktaskbarrc' with:
[General] MinimumButtonHeight=38
However, icons on the taskbar buttons stay small (16 px). Can somebody enlighten me which setting Q4OS is using here to enlarge the icons on the taskbar buttons? Or are they using a patched version of Kicker that is not available on Debian?
Not sure what menu Q4OS is using,m but in TDE there are the "standard" menu and the "kickoff" menu. In addition to that you can install TastyMenu or Kbfx, which provides other alternative menus too. Before you dwelve into icon size, you should first figure out which menu Q4OS is using.
Cheers Michele
Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
On 2021/08/10 6:51:28 AM, Leskala via tde-users wrote:
Hello everyone :)
After seeing Q4OS with its big icons in Kicker's taskbar I've been searching far and wide but haven't been able to figure out how to achieve this using plain TDE on Debian. I managed to make the buttons themselves bigger by adjusting '~/.trinity/share/config/ktaskbarrc' with:
[General] MinimumButtonHeight=38
However, icons on the taskbar buttons stay small (16 px). Can somebody enlighten me which setting Q4OS is using here to enlarge the icons on the taskbar buttons? Or are they using a patched version of Kicker that is not available on Debian?
Not sure what menu Q4OS is using,m but in TDE there are the "standard" menu and the "kickoff" menu. In addition to that you can install TastyMenu or Kbfx, which provides other alternative menus too. Before you dwelve into icon size, you should first figure out which menu Q4OS is using.
Cheers Michele
I was not referring to the TDE Menu button icon size or icon sizes within that menu. I meant the window buttons on the taskbar that fills the center portion of the Kicker panel. They are not affected by the choice of start menu and are an independent applet I believe.
Best regards, Leskala
On 2021/08/10 3:17:40 PM, Leskala via tde-users wrote:
I was not referring to the TDE Menu button icon size or icon sizes within that menu. I meant the window buttons on the taskbar that fills the center portion of the Kicker panel. They are not affected by the choice of start menu and are an independent applet I believe.
Best regards, Leskala
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. So you mean the width of the taskbar buttons showing the various windows? In such case there isn't a direct width settings AFAICT. You can choose to display only icons, only text or icons+text, which in turns will affect the button width, but there isn't a way to specify a min or max width for the buttons. Is that what you were looking for?
Cheers Michele
Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. So you mean the width of the taskbar buttons showing the various windows? In such case there isn't a direct width settings AFAICT. You can choose to display only icons, only text or icons+text, which in turns will affect the button width, but there isn't a way to specify a min or max width for the buttons. Is that what you were looking for?
No, I wasn't referring to the width of the taskbar buttons either but to the size of icons on them. Usually, TDE will display two rows of buttons with small icons. If i set "MinimumButtonHeight=38" in the ktaskbarrc file, the buttons themselves get larger and are reduced to one row but the icons stay small. On the Q4OS version of TDE if you enlarge the buttons this way, the icons will scale as well.
I attached an image showing comparison screenshots of the taskbar between Q4OS' TDE and my TDE on Debian.
(in Q4OS they also do some other stuff like specifying a custom widgetStyle= option just for the taskbar applet to get those neat bezels around the buttons but I haven't been able to find the trick they use for the icon size)
Best regards, Leskala
On 2021/08/11 2:32:16 AM, Leskala via tde-users wrote:
Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. So you mean the width of the taskbar buttons showing the various windows? In such case there isn't a direct width settings AFAICT. You can choose to display only icons, only text or icons+text, which in turns will affect the button width, but there isn't a way to specify a min or max width for the buttons. Is that what you were looking for?
No, I wasn't referring to the width of the taskbar buttons either but to the size of icons on them. Usually, TDE will display two rows of buttons with small icons. If i set "MinimumButtonHeight=38" in the ktaskbarrc file, the buttons themselves get larger and are reduced to one row but the icons stay small. On the Q4OS version of TDE if you enlarge the buttons this way, the icons will scale as well.
I attached an image showing comparison screenshots of the taskbar between Q4OS' TDE and my TDE on Debian.
(in Q4OS they also do some other stuff like specifying a custom widgetStyle= option just for the taskbar applet to get those neat bezels around the buttons but I haven't been able to find the trick they use for the icon size)
Interesting, the bezels around the buttons definitely look nice, maybe something that could be added in future as a config option. Same goes for button min/max size and icons in them. Would be good if you log an issue in TGW, otherwise this is likely to get lost over time.
Cheers Michele
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