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Re: panel resize?
by ramses on Wednesday 05/Mar/2008, @14:16

do not ask too much. It's still not possible to change the size of the font for the clock for exemple and so the clock is bigger than the panel...

Another small problem I saw is that when the panel is very small (tiny in my case) some of the widget inside are too big and appear at the top of the screen (the clock and the application launcher do have this behavior!)

But these are details! The work done between 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 is great really. And now I can think to use kde4 as my default desktop.

I just hope that the plasmoid will improve for the 4.0.3 and that the ATI driver could let me use all the effetc and the OpenGL stuff.

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Re: panel resize?
by Sebastian Kuegler on Wednesday 05/Mar/2008, @16:05

> do not ask too much. It's still not possible to change the size of the font for the clock for exemple and so the clock is bigger than the panel...

The digiclock is supposed to do that itself. It does respect the "smallest readable font" setting from systemsettings, if you set this smaller, the clock might be able to fit in nicer.

Which settings expose those problems, by the way? Interesting would be the panel size, the font used and the smallest readable font, and of course a screenshot.

> I just hope that the plasmoid will improve for the 4.0.3 and that the ATI driver could let me use all the effetc and the OpenGL stuff.

I'm using the ATI fglrx driver on my notebook, X1300 and it actually works quite well, kwin composite runs smoothly so that it doesn't get in the way. YMMV, but at least it *is* possible to have kwin compositing with fglrx.

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Re: panel resize?
by whatever noticed on Thursday 06/Mar/2008, @05:25

Where can we find that 'smallest readable font' in the systemsettings"

I couldn't find it, and over here, the clock also doesn't scale with the panel size (the font size stays the same, causing the panel to only show the upper part of the digits). Also, the icons for k-menu, show desktop, konqueror and filemanager to the left of the panel don't scale. They now show the upper 3/4 of the icon on the panel.

What i also noticed is that my Dutch desktop contains a lot of English text, which is odd considering that the statistic page of the translations gives the Dutch team a gold medal for their 100% translation of kde 4.0

Lat but not least: the icons on my desktop are doubled (which is an improvement, as they were tripled on my 4.01 desktop)..

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Re: panel resize?
by Sebastian Kuegler on Thursday 06/Mar/2008, @10:49

Look for the "Small" setting in System Settings | Appearance | Fonts.

Please supply more information of your things in Plasma, as I wrote in the other post, the following is interesting:

- Font sizes (Taskbar, Small)
- Panel Size
- Screenshots

Easiest to address and track it is a bugreport, the Dot is a very poor tool for that kind of thing.

Thanks.

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Re: panel resize?
by Dan Linder on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @09:44

I'm not the original poster, but I can comment on this as well. If a bug report has been opened on this, give me the ID and I'll add these there -- I couldn't find one that applied to the KDE4 issue.

Background:
Kubuntu 8.04 with the latest (May-6) updates applied. (kde4-4.0.3 I believe)

When I right-click on the panel (kicker?) and choose the size to be "Tiny" there are two quickly noticeable effects (aside from the desired thin panel):
1: The default "Digital Clock" on the right side is too big and only the upper half of the time is displayed. A work-around is to enable the "Show date" on the clock which just shrinks the time font a bit and moves it higher. (But you can't actually see the date so it's not a fix.)
2: When I click on the "K" menu, it isn't right above the panel, rather it is shoved to the top of the screen.

I'll attach a screen shot with annotations showing these errors.

Dan

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Re: panel resize?
by Rinse on Friday 07/Mar/2008, @04:59

>>What i also noticed is that my Dutch desktop contains a lot of English text,

Checked this, and i noticed that a lot of languages have been commented out in the kde4 .desktop files that opensuse ships.
Dunno if this is a suse issue or a kde issue.

I'll check this out...

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Re: panel resize?
by ramses on Thursday 06/Mar/2008, @07:29

the problem is not only with the font but with the plasmoid itself or could you explain me why if I choose to have the date in addition to the hour, the date appeared at the bottom of the screen (if the panel is at the bottom) and why the lower part of the K menu is at the top of the screen too. It's nothing due to the font in both case.

I solved the problems. I put the panel at the bottom so now it's a little bit bigger than at the bottom (probably because of the icone for the K menu) and I remove the clock.

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