GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340457
Setting toolbar icon size in preferences dialog?
Last modified: 2008-04-11 16:23:28 UTC
According to the GTK documentation, applications should not set the size of icons in the toolbar but should respect the user's preferences. However, I can't find any easy way to set the tool button icon size, and personally I'd like to shrink them slightly. Maybe a spin button (or drop-down list for preset sizes) in the 'Menus and Toolbars' preferences dialog would fix this?
Yeah, you can do this in the theme's .gtkrc file, but we have no GUI at present. In fact there are various icon sizes that it might be nice to tweak, some Sun customers have requested this too. Looking at the High Contrast Large Print theme, we have: mini-commander-icon=24,24 (is this still used?) print-manager=64,64 (this might be Sun-specific, can't remember) panel-button=32,32 gtk-dnd=48,48 gtk-menu=32,32 panel-menu=48,48 gtk-large-toolbar=48,48 gtk-small-toolbar=32,32 gtk-button=32,32 gtk-dialog=64,64 I rather doubt you'd want to edit all of these individually, though, as many of them are usually set to the same size as each other anyway. Maybe it would be nice if gtk+ just moved towards a notion of 'small', 'medium' and 'large' icons; then a theme (and a UI) could just set those three sizes.
I think anything about setting the toolbar icon size will depend on bug 401030 being fixed first.
*** Bug 442168 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
After further thought, I don't think this is an option we want to implement in gnome-control-center. Now that gnome-settings-daemon is extendable via plugins, it would be easy for a third party application to implement this feature.