The Applications Menu Plugin does not respect xsettings IconSizes "panel-applications-menu" value. All icons in Applications Menu have always size 16x16.
Version: 4.12.0
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Same problem for me. With Xfce-4.10 it works, with Xfce-4.12 it does not. The problem is related to the standard application-menu. I cannot say if it is related to the whisker menu too.
Thanks for the quick answer. I did not recognize that it is a patch.
Unfortunately I get an error during the compiling process of xfce4-panel. So where do you get the file from. (I ask, because eventually I need to extract it from my distribution.)
I extracted the xfce4-panel 4.12.0 and 4.10.x sources and replaced
xfce4-panel-4.12.0/plugins/applicationsmenu/*
within
xfce4-panel-4.10.x/plugins/applicationsmenu/*.
After that i made this patch.
Thank for your answer. I solved the problem. The whole problem is related to a missing package.
The solution came along with a suggestion (from gentoo bugtracker) to test everything with greybird. I did not have greybird installed previously so my first step was to install it.
Then I restarted X and surprisingly now everything works like it should. Thereby it is worth to notice that I do not changed the theme I use (Clearlooks with Metabox) to greybird not even for testing.
Obviously some parts of the packages pulled in by the installation of greybird are needed for all themes to scale the icons properly.
The packages pulled in by the installation of greybird were (on gentoo):
x11-themes/murrine-themes-0.98.0
x11-themes/gtk-engines-murrine-0.98.2-r1
x11-themes/greybird-1.5.3
I would suggest to mark the needed packages as an dependency for the installation Xfce4-panel 4.12 to solve the problem.
Gerold
PS: Interestingly the application-menu of 4.12 uses GTK3 where the one of 4.10 uses GTK2. It seems to me that because of this the 4.12 application-menu needs some parts of the greybird stuff.
Same problem for me. With Xfce-4.10 it works, with Xfce-4.12 it does not.
The problem is related to the standard application-menu. I cannot say if it
is related to the whisker menu too.
I filed already a bug at Gentoo's bug tracker.
The Applications Menu Plugin respects xsettings IconSizes "gtk-menu", not "panel-applications-menu" (libgarcon v0.4)
It has been removed in aa39ebbe, and gtk-icon-sizes is deprecated and ignored since GTK 3.10. So I'm not sure if there is a replacement for it, and if so what is it? Via theming? @lastonestanding do you know this?
There is a forum thread which has some information. However, a proper solution would require this to be implemented in the garcon code (new property?) to avoid the upscaling.
Okay, thanks. So at this point it is not a regression, which would not be of our doing anyway, but a feature request to overcome a regrettable evolution of GTK 3.
It also seems clear, if it was ever to be done, it would not be at the panel level. Garcon does seem to be a good choice. So I'm moving this over there.