Dash Icons are too large

[John McGuckian]

Binary package hint: unity

The icons in dash are too large and do not fit in the default window.
Running latest version of natty:

Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

Unity version: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1

Resizing the icons in ccsm only works for the main panel, not the dash icons.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic-pae 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,move,regex,resize,snap,place,grid,imgpng,mousepoll,vpswitch,animation,gnomecompat,session,workarounds,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Sat Apr 2 20:06:32 2011
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110327)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110327)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110327)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic-pae 2.6.38
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic-pae 2.6.38
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu1

[GB Mel (gbmelbob)]

I don't agree that this problem is a duplicate of #73509.
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and have resorted to the "classic" gnome desktop to avoid this probem in the unity desktop.
The problem here is that the application icons are so large that only 8 (eight) will fit on my 10" netbook screen
(in two rows of 4). With over a hundred applications, this means a lot of scrolling to find what I want.
By comparison, my 3.5" smartphone screen shows 20 icons on one screen.
Icons and text should be independent. In fact the whole point of icons (my opinion) is to not need text.
I would request that the icon size be a user option with a wide range of size values, and the descriptive text only be shown
as a mouse-over, to help when learning to recognise the icons.