Config-only Pass 2 polish on the live operator panel-skel, targeting the residual panel-too-tall / network+mixer icons-too-small-and-inconsistent reports that Pass 1's icon-size=2 could not fix (the XFCE systray ignores panel icon-size).
- xfce4-panel.xml: panel size 48 -> 40 (icon-size stays 24px) so launchers, xkb text, clock, and tray icons read as one proportionate row.
- xfce4-panel.xml: systray square-icons=true for uniform square tray rendering.
Whisker PNG, xkb text mode, and the clock are left as-is (still pending hardware verification). Absolute tray-icon sizing stays a theme/build-host concern, not a config lever; documented in the handoff. XML validated well-formed; markdown format gate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sam & Claude
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