Application Indicators too wide
Bug #527267 reported by
Fabien Tassin
This bug affects 154 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Indicator Applet |
Confirmed
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Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Shiki-Colors Packaging |
Unknown
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Unknown
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light-themes (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Kenneth Wimer | ||
shiki-colors-murrine (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
the Application Indicators applet is wider than the regular systray.
3 Indicators icons are slightly bigger than 4 tray icons, incl. the left part.
See the screenshot. The two highlighted boxes are ~100 pixels wide.
With more applications moving to the app indicator, it will result in less usable space in the panel, which in my case is already pretty full.
Changed in indicator-application: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in indicator-application: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in shiki-colors-murrine (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in indicator-application: | |
status: | Invalid → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → New |
tags: | removed: indicator-application |
tags: | added: patch |
Changed in linuxmint: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in indicator-application: | |
status: | Invalid → New |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in indicator-application: | |
status: | Invalid → Opinion |
Changed in indicator-application: | |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | indicator-application → indicator-applet |
Changed in indicator-applet: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
no longer affects: | hundredpapercuts |
no longer affects: | linuxmint |
I'm not sure this is a problem , It looks more organized and well spaced than the cramped icons on the left.
The current spacing can to be left as is .
The indicator- application guidelines mention what apps should and should not use the panel. [from this screenshot itself , the xchat needs to be in the messaging menu ] When we take into account the guidelines , it is probably less common for the apps to over load the panel and have space shortage.
However , the possibility of more apps using the app-indicator and there being no space is probably a valid scenario and probably corner case.
For these scenarios only when there is less space , we should consider reducing the space , in steps, for all the indicators *equally*. [ie , if the normal spacing is 6px on either side of the icon ; once overloaded , it is reduced to 5px for the new icon to be added ; if more apps are launched then reduced to 4px , then 3px => 2px]