GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 601063
Option to scale down icons
Last modified: 2011-07-10 02:18:50 UTC
There should be an option to scale down the icons in QLA for example to 75%. It would look a whole lot nicer. As of now the icons are huge and span from one edge of the panel to the other, which makes it look rather ugly and unprofessional.
you can change the dimensions in the preferences dialog, dimensions are expressed as number of rows instead of pixels of percentage as you suggest.
I know, but I want just 1 row, with smaller icons.
I don't like the idea, try to use a smaller panel
No, you don't understand. It doesn't matter how large the panel is. The problem is the icons always take 100% of the vertical panel space. The icons should be cca 20% smaller than the panel.
Created attachment 147186 [details] Icons 25% smaller Look how much sexier it looks when the icons are smaller.
the panel launchers work the same way, quick-lounge tries to stay consistent with the panel behavior.
The panel launchers are ugly too (I plan to report those as bugs too). The first thing I do is remove them and install QLA, because it's much more elegant. You can still keep the large icons as default, but would it really hurt you to give us a little option to make our desktops nicer? Pretty please? :)
quick-lounge-applet development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing the bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.