QuickLauncher on vertical panel

[pcjohn]

Hi,

placed QuickLauncher plasmoid on vertical panel and expected to place icons on it in left-to-right manner, possibly in two rows, say 6x2 icons. (The panel is wide enough, about 200 pixels, as it contains taskbar, etc.)

Problem: The icons organize themselves in vertical (up-to-down) direction only. So, there is just one column of icon. 12 rows instead of 2. It wastes almost all the space of my panel.

Is there a fix, workaround or setting for it? I was using QuickLauncher on vertical panels in KDE 3.x and I was very happy with it. Hope for solution in KDE 4.x as well.

Thanks,
John

[Rog131]

Re: QuickLauncher on vertical panel

Here, if i change the icon size the quicklaunch plasmoid will put the icons to the two columns.

[img width=392 height=400]http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/5066/settingsh.png[/img]

[pcjohn]

Re: QuickLauncher on vertical panel

Thanks,

at the end, I was able to reproduce what you showed at the picture. So, that is the good news. Now, I am attaching list of problems:

- to get icons in horizontal direction (left-to-right), I had to place at least 5 icons of the size 40 to my panel that is something above 200 pixels wide. If there are less icons, they are automatically going in vertical direction (up-down).

- The placement of icons and all the plasmoids is definitely using a kind of "advanced" logic that is very nice. However, with the QuickLaunch, I got several times 100% occupied CPU and very poor KDE responsivity until I resized my panel a little bit differently and plasmoids finally settled, freeing CPU. I am expecting it is KDE issue.

- I am a little bit missing the possibility to control the size of plasmoids on the panel, although this is not so important as problems above.

For sure, my system: Kubuntu 10.4, Radeon 5xxx using AMD binary driver

John

[Snowhog]

Re: QuickLauncher on vertical panel

Here, KK 10.04, KDE 4.5.1, Quicklauncher Settings contains what you are looking for. Tested, and it works 'as advertized.'

[Rog131]

Re: QuickLauncher on vertical panel

That image is from the Kubuntu 10.04 with the KDE 4.4.2.

The KDE 4.4 is having a panel icon regression (> Topic: Icons in taskbar half the size they used to be). It should be fixed with the KDE 4.5.

[pcjohn]

Re: QuickLauncher on vertical panel

That image is from the Kubuntu 10.04 with the KDE 4.4.2.

Exactly. That is the version I have. That explains the difference with Snowhog. Thanks to him for the screenshot that is probably from upcoming 10.10 release. I will test it once it is available. Thanks.

BTW: For forum readers - I see Snowhog screenshot only when I am logged as myself.