Re: Distance between menu item
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 09:18 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 09:14, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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)
>
> I think GTK+ 2.4 has more padding between menu items than 2.2, so I'd
> say that your Fedora is using 2.2. Is this right?
For me, the change in line spacing was introduced very recently,
definitely after GTK+ 2.4, and isn't limited to the GNOME menu. Could be
separate issues though.
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