The icons of the window buttons (task list) are too small and does not grow with the panel (they are fixed at 16px). It would be nice if they did.
Actually there is a way how to have big icons: you have to 1) disable Window Buttons/Properties/Show button labels and 2) have "Panel Preferences/Appearance/Icons/Adjust size automatically" off and 3) have "Panel Preferences/Appearance/Fixed icon size" at least 32 Then there are 32 pixel icons instead of 16 pixel ones (they are somewhat misplaced to the right on the buttons by one or two pixels, though). But I would like to have big icons with labels, and the best would be if they scaled with the size of the panel.
Created attachment 9081 Big icons not centered properly
Created attachment 9082 Big icons in window buttons Patch to use big icons. Increase the size of panel to at least 36 pixels to see the change. This of course does not create scalable icons, but more or less achieves what I wanted.
Created attachment 9083 Big icons in window buttons screenshot The result after the patch.
The patch has the following problem: If the panel size is 50 pixels, the window buttons become twoline, individual buttons are 25 pixels high, yet the icons are still 32pixel big, i.e. too big for the buttons.
I found I reported similar "bug" already two years ago, bug 12277. I am sorry, I forgot about it. It was wontfix then. My renewed interest was sparked by a topic on the forum (so I am not alone who would like to see bigger icons on the task list) https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13335
I want to subscribe to this bug. For a netbook screen at least, the new gtk3 look of window buttons in xfce 4.14 show too small icons. The "button" itself is ok, but it has a lot of "border" or background (usless, why?) and the icon itself looks too small inside. Though not ideal, the thing was better in xfce 4.12. Why this regression?
-- GitLab Migration Automatic Message -- This bug has been migrated to xfce.org's GitLab instance and has been closed from further activity. You can subscribe and participate further through the new bug through this link to our GitLab instance: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/265. Please create an account or use an existing account on one of our supported OAuth providers. If you want to fork to submit patches and merge requests please continue reading here: https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/git/start#gitlab_forks_and_merge_requests Also feel free to reach out to us on the mailing list https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev