Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Hi,

I've been going though installing my preferred software and settings on a
new box running Xubuntu 11.10. One of the 'basic essentials' of which for
me is ROX. I installed the version of ROX provided via synaptic, and
overall it works fine. But there are a few quirks where it doesn't match
the versions I have on earlier *buntu distros, so want to describe them
here are see if people can suggest the reason/fix.

The main quirk is that the ROX panel (icon bar) has a size which I can't
alter as before. Earlier versions have a slider for the size of the panel
as part of the ROX options. But the menus for this in the Xubuntu 11.10
version have no such slider I can find, and I've not found any GUI way. It
give no alternative to 'Default' for the panel.

If I look inside

 .config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/pan_Default

I find an entry width="52" which I *guess* sets the width (i.e. height) of
the panel. But altering this value seems to make no difference. So either
I'm totally musinderstanding, or the people who packaged ROX for 11.10 have
'made alternative arrangements'.

The situation is confused because 'zero install' is seperately listed by
the Xubuntu panel items. *And* every now and then the system seems to pop
up some progress windows that seem to try and access zero install for ROX.
But I didn't use that method, I used synaptic.

I would like the 'taller icon bar' because my eyesight is lousy so I use
big icons for my own apps on the panel. At present, despite saying I want
icon *and* text under the icons, the text doesn't appear for some items. I
suspect this is because the panel is too small.

Cheers,

Jim

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