[solved] set panel icon spacing manually?

[wizard10000]

Hi, folks - first post.

Is there any way to manually set the icon spacing on a panel? The panel thinks it's smarter than I am.

thanks -

[Rog131]

Re: set panel icon spacing manually?

Welcome - do you mean icons on the task manager ? or something else ?

There are alternatives for the task manager:

plasma-widget-stasks (official repositories)

a task manager replacement

stasks is a space saving replacement for the standard task manager. It shows
information about open programs in a hover image on mouseover and is
customizable.

plasma-widget-smooth-tasks (binaries could be found from the PPA repositories)

a task manager plasmoid

This is a fork of mbaszczewskis STasks plasmoid.
For the original STasks code go there:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=99739

This taskbar replacement has window peeking similar to
Windows 7 when you use the kwin 'highlite window' effect.
Even if this effect is not used you can click the tooltip
in order to activate the corresponding window.

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...content=101586

They have settings for the "Space Between Tasks" and "Icon Scale"

[wizard10000]

Re: set panel icon spacing manually?

Thanks - no, I meant the panel itself. I kinda like to group icons on the panel but the panel wants to arrange them for me and I can change the order but not the spacing.

[Rog131]

Re: set panel icon spacing manually?

I kinda like to group icons on the panel but the panel wants to arrange them for me and I can change the order but not the spacing.

Have you tried to add a spacer between the icons ?

[wizard10000]

Re: set panel icon spacing manually?

I didn't even see that. We'll try that and see how it goes - thanks.