Re: making the panel smaller??

[Steve Howes <steve borago uklinux net>]

Lauris Kaplinski wrote:
> 
> Even, if you have only launchers/menus on panel?
> 
> Panel should resize itself to largest applet, so if some of your applets
> does not resize, panel stays, as it is. Applets are only suggested to
> follow panel size, not forced - although most behave quite well...
> 
> Lauris
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Steve Howes wrote:
> 
> > Loban Rahman wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have read some messages concerning the panel and also checked the achive but
> > > > couldn't find any information on how to resize the panel.  When I was using Kde
> > > > you could set the panel to use small icons and it would be nice and thin at the
> > > > top.  Is there anyway to do this in gnome
> > >
> > > Sure thing! Right-click on an empty area of the panel, choose properties,
> > > then size. Bingo. Note that the menu panel (if you have one) cannot be
> > > resized.
> > >
> >
> > I also have a similar problem.  The only thing the above does on my
> > system (Mandrake 7.0 w/ Helix Gnome) is resize the icons on the panel
> > but not the panel itself.
> >

Many thanks to you both for the info.  Because I had seen all the
launcher icons shrink and the panel stay the same size it had not
entered in to my head that hte clock applet was not resizing and thus
keeping the panel the same size.  (Duh my head hurts!)

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