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Bug 655349 - Shrinking space between icons as well as shrinking text on small screens
Shrinking space between icons as well as shrinking text on small screens
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 651299
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-26 14:15 UTC by G. Michael Carter
Modified: 2011-07-26 15:14 UTC
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Description G. Michael Carter 2011-07-26 14:15:03 UTC 
I was just adding gnome-shell-extension-gpaste and thought, with all these new extensions adding icons to the top bar... we could quickly run out of space.

Just as a test I did xrandr -s 800x600.  The temperature turned into ... and my name disappeared completely.  But I noticed the space between the icons still quite large.   Tried xrandr -s 640x480 and again there's enough space between the icons to fit new ones.   At 640x480 icons just disappeared.  Which is another issue.  How do you access the missing icons?

As an option how about shrinking the space between the icons when they start to get into space problems.   Second thing how about a way of scrolling  the icons or have a feature like Windows where icons not used get hidden.
Comment 1 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2011-07-26 15:14:43 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

While not an exact duplicate ("portrait mode"), it's quite similar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651299 ***