Padding 10 in gnome-panel

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 08:36 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:15 +0400, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I’m wondering why was padding 10 added to default gnome-panel
> > configuration? My panel at 1280x1024 with bunch of elements has now
> > difficulties to fit them all. And at smaller resolutions, for example,
> > at netbooks that wouldn’t be useful at all.
> 
> 
> The padding was added because it makes things look less crammed
> together. If it doesn't work for you,
>  
> gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/padding 0
> gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/padding
> 0

Any chance instead of 10, maybe try using between 3-5 and see how that
works?  It just seemed with 10, that the icons were a little *too* far
apart and took up a whole lot more room.


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Mike Chambers
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