random useless thoughts---

although you can blow applets up in some distros I would not necessarily want them as big as panel icons. but I sure understand the disparity and left-right difference visually...
...that huge difference, in your picture, is the reason I went to Plank. I left the icons alone and moved the Plank away from them on the opposite side of the screen.

Looks better.

That said...could you actually increase display somehow by a certain percentage? Like 115? Or 120? then you could shrink your panel icon size to match the new big applets. It's a weird workaround, just an idea.

I do know one forum member who could tell you a definitive yes or no or maybe, as he is expert at editing .rss and this kind of stuff like this and that's @SethStorm666

edit: certain themes bump applet size up and down but not to the extent you are looking for

I went full in with plasma on all my machines, so I need to put budgie in VM, so I can test if anything can be edited via theming.

    SethStorm666 I went full in with plasma on all my machines, so I need to put budgie in VM, so I can test if anything can be edited via theming.

    did not know that or I would not have troubled you, sorry Seth

        AlphaElwedritsch

        The qt apps are great and it play nicely in the plasma/KDE environment. Even the GTK apps behave under Plasma in style and color which can't be said vice versa - that's one of the reasons. The other reason is that you can edit/modify almost everything in Plasma or find someone that did it for you 😉.
        It taken some time before I took the plunge, but since Gnome wants to remove as many features and theming from the users, I had been looking for replacement in DE. I still do love Budgie mind you, but I can't bend either nemo or nautilus to my likening. So Plasma it be. 🙂

            brent
            Cheers, Brent. I don't mind. I need Budgie in VM to test stuff either way.

              Mirr Yes you can change Icon and Font sizes. 🙂

              Select -> Budgie Desktop Settings -> Fonts -> Interface right button and adjust size bottom right -> Select 🙂

                  elfprince craigtoyoracer That did it! Many thanks!

                  just when I think I've seen every budgie setting I could possibly see there is always another one! 😄

                    brent Thanks for the links. I will check it out in detail in a couple days 🙂 if it's too complicated for me I might just switch to KDE Plasma.

                      SethStorm666 Oh I hesitated between Budgie and KDE Plasma when I installed Solus. I went for Budgie because that's the one Solus seems made for. Do you think KDE Plasma works just as well than Budgie with Solus ?

                          Mirr Glad to hear.
                          Have you adjusted the Panel size ?
                          -> BDS -> Bottom Panel -> Size +/-

                          Also for those looking for larger text overall, try BDS -> Fonts -> Text scaling.

                          • Mirr replied to this.

                              craigtoyoracer Yes I did, the panel size adjusted, the left bottom icons adjusted, but not the right bottom ones, except System Tray after I selected "Scale icons with panel size" - but this setting doesn't exist for the other icons ("Notifications", "Status Indicator", "User indicator", "Raven Trigger").

                                SethStorm666 IMO Solus got the best Budgie experience/setup out there.

                                this is true. I've tried it in Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu, etc----they are budgie technically but there is no Celtic Magic. Solus the best experience IMO as well.

                                @Mirr I did not mean to deviate your request for help here, apologies