System tray icons sized inappropriately in vertical layout

[John Karp]

Binary package hint: xfce4-panel

When the Xfce panel is given a vertical orientation, the system tray plugin sizes its icons inappropriately. Scalable icons seem to be the problem. See screenshot.

Xubuntu 8.04, Xfce 4.4.2-3ubuntu3

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

This particular bug has already been reported as bug #139424 but feel free to report any other bug you may find.

[John Karp (johnkarp)]

I am not experiencing any missing icons, so I don't see how this issue is part of #139424, as it is currently described.

If #139424 is to include this issue, I think its title and description should be updated accordingly, to something like "Missing and badly sized tray icons in vertically-oriented xfce4 bar". Does anyone mind me making such a change?

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

I think the other one is not the same bug. Can you name applications that have this problem?

I think it is not always good thing that tray icons get bigger when you make panel size bigger; sometimes you may want to get more icons fit in system tray.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

I guess it is Update notifier in the screenshot. I have the same problem with it.

John Karp , I don't understand your point about changing the title of bug #139424. Have you tried the application mentioned in the bug report?

[John Karp (johnkarp)]

I already changed the title and summary of the other bug.

The applications where I've seen this are the update notifier, and the transmission bittorrent client, though the latter seems to have changed its icon such that the problem no longer manifests.

I don't have/use the applications mentioned originally in the other bug report.