Wider icons captions in Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Activities Panel

[PiotrT]

Hey All!

To get wider icons in activities panel and get rid (a bit) of annoying ellipsis of icon captions you have to edit gnome-shell CSS file. It is located under /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css. Go to /* Application Launchers and Grid */ section:

/* Application Launchers and Grid */

.icon-grid {
    spacing: 0px; /*was 36px */
    -shell-grid-horizontal-item-size: 190px; /* was 118 px */
    -shell-grid-vertical-item-size: 90px; /* was 118 px */
}

.icon-grid .overview-icon {
    icon-size: 64px; /* was 96px; */
}

.icon-grid .app-well-app > .overview-icon,
.search-result-content > .overview-icon {
    width: 190px; /* new entry */
    height: 90px; /* new entry */
}

The point is to add .icon-grid .app-well-app > .overview-icon and .search-result-content > .overview-icon selectors, which select the icon boxes. Thanks to that, you can fix icon width and height. Specified width should be the same as -shell-grid-vertical-item-size and height as -shell-grid-horizontal-item-size. Because of wider size of the icon, spacing can be set to zero. You just need to experiment a bit with icon-size.

Additionally you can change font size in /* Text Styles */ section (beginning of file):

.app-well-app > .overview-icon,
.remove-favorite > .overview-icon,
.search-result-content > .overview-icon {
    font-size: 8pt; /* was 9pt */
    font-weight: bold;
}

To test your changes logout and login again

Here is how it looks in my Gnome:

[elias12]

Nice Tip thangs. Some of the Gnome-Shell or Themes are broken and look like this:



Here an example from the Shell-Theme "Transpartent Atolm"

Your Tip make me happy to choose different view.

[JCPC1]

Originally Posted by PiotrT

Hey All!

To get wider icons in activities panel and get rid (a bit) of annoying ellipsis of icon captions you have to edit gnome-shell CSS file. It is located under /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css. Go to /* Application Launchers and Grid */ section:

Tried this, logged out and back in, but no joy. Absolutely no change at all. Too bad because the icons are about unreadable.

Is there a folder in my home directory that may need blowing away?

Thanks

[leosubhadeep]

Thanks a bunch, it worked for me like a charm!

For those it didn't work, either select "Gnome (default)" as theme and/or customize the css of your own theme (not sure how to do that!)!!