Increase icon menu size?

[Niki Kovacs]

JoeHill a écrit :
> Niki Kovacs wrote: 
> 
>> I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat (South France), and a Linux 
>> user since 2001. I'm currently putting together a "stealth" production 
>> desktop for use in town halls and public libraries, based on Slackware 
>> Linux and XFCE. Right now I'm doing the fine-tuning, sanding down the 
>> odd edges.
>>
>> One thing that worries me is the default size of the menu icons. Many of 
>> my users are older people, especially in the public libraries, and I'd 
>> like to get the menu display bigger. I somehow sense it can be done: I 
>> took a peek at the Dreamlinux site, an XFCE-based distro, and their menu 
>> looks like I'd want it: a bit like the GNOME menu. Take a look here:
>>
>> http://www.dreamlinux.com.br (can't seem to link it directly, since they 
>> have some fancy script stuff on their page. Take a look at 
>> 'Screenshots', and display a screenshot containing a menu).
>>
>> I've been looking around for a configuration option for that, but I 
>> can't seem to find it.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> In your ~/.gtkrc-2.0;
> 
> gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-menu=x,y"
> 
> This will affect all icons everywhere, in all GTK application menus.
> 
Thanks, that worked... although not out of the box. I had to peek around 
a bit, and found that I had to edit 
/usr/share/themes/<current_theme>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc to change that.

Now I have a menu like we ( = me and my short-sighted users :oD) wanted.

cheers,

Niki