Environment: OpenSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) w/ up-to-date patches

After (I suppose) a recent patch, and a desktop restart (or system reboot) I noticed that the icons in my KDE system tray are huge. The larger size means they are taking up around 25% of my panel space.

Before the larger icons appeared in the tray, the tray icons were "half-sized" and the tray consisted of two rows of the smaller icons. This was ideal as I don't often need to access the applications behind those icons and don't want them eating up so much acreage on my screen. I've found no controls within any of the System Settings dialogs that will affect the system tray appearance.

Does anyone know what might have caused the new, huge tray icon size? I'd like to get the tray back to the previous mode of operation (smaller icons, two rows)

All I've been able to via The Google is some Javascript that the poster tells users to place in directories that don't exist on OpenSUSE. (I have no idea whether creating those missing directory structure would do any good. Would OpenSUSE's KDE even know to look there?)

Is there a desktop theme that gives me some direct control over the appearance of the system tray? (Not having to manually edit Javascript files would be ideal.)

TIA...

Maybe you are affected by this bug: Icons in systray are ridiculously big, but it is very old. I had the same problem and workaround from the last post helped me. Currently I am using KDE v5.27 and it seems to be corrected now for quite long time. Somewhere I read that changing font size to lower than 20px also can also help.

BTW do believe OpenSUSE 13.2 will expire in the first quarter of 2017

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Sorry... I've had the email about your response sitting around in my Inbox for a while (too long, actually). Thought I ought to finally update...

I tried a couple of the fixes I found online that had me mucking around with configuration files under the .kde4 tree. Unfortunately, none of them worked. Here's what did work, though:

1.) Log out of the desktop with the huge systray icons,

2.) At the login dialog box, select the "failsafe" KDE desktop option (the desktop was working just fine other than the systray problem but I figured, `what the heck'),

3.) Enter username/password,

4.) Joy (other than not really getting warm fuzzies about solving the problem with a `Hail Mary' solution like this)

I sure wish I knew what I might have done to cause the giant icon problem so I could avoid doing it again.

I'd read something like that a while back. I still have time. I'm looking at implementing a disk storage revamp when I do the next OS install. I prefer to do a fresh install when migrating from one major release to the next. I've still got some planning to get done as I'll be doing a migration like this on several systems in quick succession.

Cheers...