Ubuntu

SIze of luncher icons 32x32 is still to big

Bug #992485 reported by Alexander Sell
48
This bug affects 10 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

FInally in 12.04 the made an option to malke the luncher icons smaler to 32x32, but the desktop is more wide than high., So why are the luncher icons bigger than the icons in gnome or KDE, where they using the width and not height of the desktop.
Does the Unity developers have that bad eyes that they need that big icons?
15x15 would be enough!
I always have to scroll up and down to navigate to the starter I need. That|s very anoying.
And I read ablreay a lot ofr postings that people like to have smaler icons. But Ubuntu limit it to 32x32. Why that limitation again?

Looks for me just to find a way to make Unity life more hard and complicated...

I think, that is a very big bug what should be fixed soon and not in years

Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)
Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Opinion
Revision history for this message
Daniel Défago (daniel-defagordi) wrote :

Hello, I'm also in this mind I have the fix link with:

Firefox
Chromium
thunderbird
Nautilus
Skype (did not work in notification bar)
3 Work Programmes
Filezilla
Xpad
Empathy (don't start only in notification bar)
Eclipse
Virtualbox
Vinagre

So that is my fix task bar, after that I have only place for 3 New Programs without scroll!

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sell (ubuntu.alex) wrote :

Oh I see, here is my programms list:

Firefox
Chromium
Terminal
Calculator
DAF Desk
Virtualbox
Multiget
Filezilla
MetaTrader
Texteditor
gPHPedit
chmSee
LibreOfficeWriter
LibreOfficeCalculate
BlueGriffon
Ubuntu Software Center
Synaptic
SweetHome3D
TORCS
UbuntuOne
UCRfeeder

And still pissed ioff with that huge icons for blind guys
Sure, I can renove some of them and put it on the desktop, but then I alsoways have to close all Windows, when I like to open a new programm.

Revision history for this message
corey (mrcorey) wrote :

I have to agree. Not everyone in the world has the funds to replace their 4x3 aspect ratio monitors with a new widescreen flat panel. On my old but still beefy AMD Athlon64x2 (dual core @ 2.6GHz), the launcher takes a lot of effort to come out of hiding. So, unless the launcher unhide action is made instant, or to actually work without smashing the mouse pointer against the side of the screen several times before it wakes, smaller icons would be so much better.

Revision history for this message
Giuseppe Gandolfi (feldspar-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Definitely, minimum icon size 32x32 in Unity 3D is too large for many screens, it seems tuned for visually impaired people.
Nothing against half-blind people, of course.
However I can still see well, fortunately, even if I am quite old now.

How can one dismiss the problem by saying that this is just an opinion?
The right answer would be: "I'll just try to patch it".
Or: "This is an intrinsic limitation, there's nothing we can do for now".
At least, it would have been an honest answer.
Are you not MS yet, arent't you?

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Opinion → New
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.