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Re: Distance between menu item



On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 23:42 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> 
> I noticed that the distance between menu items in Debian GNOME is very 
> large. Therefore you can not have many bookmarks and also large menus 
> cover the whole screen on low resolution monitors
> 
> I made a screenshot of the applications menu in debian
> See http://ftp.haitsma.org/debian-gnome.jpg
> and the one in Fedora
> See http://ftp.haitsma.org/rh-gnome.jpg
> 
> In Debian the menu items are 30 pixels apart and in Fedora only 24 
> pixels. Is there an option I can set to get them closer?

I suspect it's a bug somewhere. I had assumed it was specific to ttf-
freefont because that got upgraded recently, but apparently not, so it's
probably somewhere else in the text rendering stack: libfontconfig1,
libxft2, libpango1.0-0, libgtk2.0-0, ... ? (I'm pretty sure it's not
libfreetype6)


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