By "hitbox", I mean the clickable area of the buttons, and not their icon representation.
Currently, the hitboxes are the exact same size as their icons, which may make them unnecessarily difficult to press.
Ideally, the hitboxes should be square, and extending slightly beyond the radius of their circle icons, in a way that would allow for screen-edge-pressing the buttons of maximized windows.
Here's an artist's rendition of what I have in mind:

Tested on Fedora Linux 41, KDE 6.3.3