Scale down icons in gnome panel if they are too large

[Dan Quade]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

This is not a usability bug, it is an aesthetic bug.

The icons in:
 - notification area
 - quick lounge applet
 - icons added as "application launcher"
are all too large!

Right now they are so tall they basically span from top to bottom of the panel.
And this makes it look ugly and unprofessional.
They need to be scaled down some 25%.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 14 14:13:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

those are icon theme requests

[Dan Quade (danquade)]

But that creates a lot of extra work for theme makers. Instead all problems could be solved with a simple scale function.

[jeder (i-jeder)]

Agreed with unimatrix. This is not just his wishes. Many people said that icons in gnome-panel look ugly because of they can't scaled properly. For example, when gnome-panel size set to 24px, icons have the same size and look very big and not aesthetic.