How to resize the top panel in Unity?

I want to resize (increase size) the Ubuntu 11.10 top taskbar, no the unity launcher, i've searched it on google, but i'm not encountered any solution.

I need it only for customize my Ubuntu 11.10 installation, for make it more aestetic.

Solution 1:

For 12.04:

Yes, now you can.

Unfortunately you can't do it by options or theming (even if adding a more CCSM option would be trivial), but you can easily change the plugins/unityshell/PanelStyle.cpp (in 12.04) or panel/PanelStyle.cpp (in later versions) panel_height property, setting it to a value you want. See:

The only thing that doesn't "match" that value, is the icon size. However you can increase their size easily by editing the value defined in PanelIndicatorEntryView::MakePixbuf (currently hardcoded to 22px) and then rebuild Unity:

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Solution 2:

For 11.10:

Unfortunately this part of Unity is not customizable in Ubuntu 11.10, it is possible by editing the source in 12.04.