GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324264
Setting toolbar size
Last modified: 2008-04-06 12:43:23 UTC
Currently it is not possible to set the size of the toolbars. I've found this: In gconf: /desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_icon_size You can set the value of the key to a number of values to change the default size of the toolbar buttons: menu small-toolbar large-toolbar button dnd dialog You simply set it to the string "small-toolbar" and it works. But it would be nice to have this in the gnome-ui-properties maybe with a small combobox to choose the size.
Thanks for your bug. Cc-ing usability team to get their opinion. Do you think that this setting should be listed by the capplet or a gconf option is enough for it?
I don't recall anyone ever complaining before, and themes (or the user) are welcome to set this parameter in their gtkrc file too (e.g. the LargePrint themes do this), so I'd be inclined to leave it alone. I can't think of any particularly great way of presenting the alternatives to the user anyway-- some of them are usually the same size as each other, and they're not necessarily always in the same size order (e.g. dnd might be larger than dialog in some themes, and smaller in another), so a text description isn't necessarily very helpful. But if we just showed the list of sizes they represented instead (stripping out duplicates), the list could easily differ from theme to theme, which would probably be a source of bug reports :)
Following Calum's advice.