GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 74274
Cannot choose large menu icons on panel menu.
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:01:17 UTC
In GNOME 1 I had the option of using large icons in my panel menus, which made the panel easier to navigate and made it look less ridiculous on today's high-resolution displays. This option seems to have disappeared in GNOME 2. I think that it should be reinstated.
This probably should not be panel-specific- there should be a 'use larger icons' option that is gnome-wide. Tempted to close on that basis but won't, as that is not likely to occur soon.
Should I open a new bug on a different product?
I'd say 'yes' except I have no idea who/what is responsible for this type of cross-gnome policy, implementation, and configuration. libgnome somewhere?
it involves at least gtk, bonobo, and libgnomeui. i don't know if icon sizes where changable in themes or not; someone involved in a11y might know. anyway, as this includes both string and UI changes it's probably going to be WONTFIX for 2.0.0
Okay. I'll raise it on desktop-devel-list or some appropriate venue post 2.0.0.
moving to general, this should be implemented gnome-wide really, maybe the icon sizes should be relative to the text size used? an idea. also please do not file gnome2 bugs against gnome core, it no longer exists.
See bug 70648, where there is a patch for icon sizing waiting.
Please add accessibility keyword, as this is an accessibility issue as well and a potential accessibility stopper.
Okay, I'm moving this to the panel. It doesn't actually require any changes to the panel now since I implemented decent icon themeing support yesterday. All it requires is that icon sizes are themeable, and then you can change the 'panel-menu' registered icon size. So this is still blocked by #70648.
Also putting on the 2.2.x milestone since this is the earliest we'll be able to depend on gtk2.2.0
Is this still planned for GNOME2.2 ? Or is it postponed ?
Well its possible to do very easily for GNOME 2.2. E.g. if you put gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=30,30" in you $(prefix)/share/gnome-panelrc then you get 30,30 icons in the menus. Not sure whether we want to make it a user visible option or not.
Reducing priority and severity since its possible to do with gtkrc
*** Bug 77726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We have a Large Print theme that will let you lose large icons everywhere, is not having a GUI to allow you to use them only on the panel really a stopper for accessibility? I don't think so, marking AP4 for now, somebody else can change it later if they don't agree :)
Oops, forgot to actually mark it AP4...
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Is this something that we actually want to bring back btw?
Kjartan: I think the user can already affect this via the 'Icons' section of the 'Theme Details' pane in the theme capplet. Perhaps it would make more sense to have the 'Icons' pane include some sort of size-selection combobox. (If anything). One could choose sizes for specific icons, i.e. panel icon size, menu icon size, toolbar icon size, etc. Possibly overkill of course.
Is there a chance of getting a "Theme Editor"(with gtk GUI), so special things like this are possible in a GUI instead of editing a gtkrc file. A properties dialog for the gnome-"Main Menu" would be great, users should be able to override some gtkrc-settings there. - Especially because nautilus doesnt open "applications:///" anymore.
Adding some UI to the 'details' of the current Theme dialog would make it into more of a 'theme editor' (since it already stores mix-and-match combinations from 'Details' as a 'Custom Theme'). I suggest an icon-size-selector and possibly a focus-indication-selector (for thicker and thinner focus indication and text caret).
Someone should retitle this bug and/or file different bugs for the other issues that have crept in here during the discussion... :-)
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This is doable in gtkrc files since a long time and I won't add a configuration UI somewhere in gnome-panel for this. If someone needs to change this, this is in a theme editor. Marking as FIXED since the core support is there. See comment 12 on how to use this.