Comment 1 for bug 380032

Ah, this is probably because it was resizing itself to the icon size that the user could set in the config dialog so that it wouldn't be super-tiny outside the panel. (The icon size setting was for the icons inside QuickAccess, so I'm not sure why it was being used for that...)

Anyway, in 0.9 the applet will act like a normal Plasma widget on the desktop, and only become an icon in the panel, effectively fixing this bug.
Will close as fixed once 0.9 is released. (Which shouldn't be too far off, just doing some regression fixing)