On Friday 19 December 2008, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > This was working fine in 4.1.3, and is the way I usually used my KDE > desktop. I don't want icons to eat 30% of the bar area. A 2 row 15% area is > much better. This is probably a regression The system tray was entirely rewritten in 4.2. The change of behavior may be intentional or it might be an oversight. You can try filing a bug upstream at https://bugs.kde.org/ , but I can't promise they'll fix/change it. Kevin Kofler