Cannot set big icons while using labels

Submitted by Stephen Ewen

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#10849)

Description

I'm using xfce4-panel 4.11.0 in Xubuntu 14.04 64-bit.

There is a README in the source code at xfce4-panel-4.11.0/docs/README.gtkrc-2.0 which you can read at https://github.com/EasternHeart/heartlenv-panel/blob/master/docs/README.gtkrc-2.0 - it explains how to theme various aspects of the panel.

I initially filed a bug report concerning only one of them, XfceApplicationsMenuPlugin, but after further testing, NONE of those which declare a perimeter in gtk-icon-sizes work:

XfceApplicationsMenuPlugin XfceDirectoryMenuPlugin XfceWindowMenuPlugin XfceLauncherPlugin XfceTasklist XfceActionsPlugin

For example, placing the following in to $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 results in no changes.

gtk-icon-sizes="panel-tasklist-menu=64,64"

style "xfce-tasklist-style" { XfceTasklist::max-button-size = 64 } class "XfceTasklist" style "xfce-tasklist-style"

I am sure that $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 is being read because other parts of the file have effect.

So this means that it is not possible to increase any panel menu icons sizes above the tiny 16 pixel size. This effectivle blocks many visually impaired people from using Xfce.

As I am trying to build a distro based on Xfce, I'd be very, very appreciative of a fix.

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