Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 05/12/08 19:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
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> > Thank you and to all others for their suggestions. I shall try alternate
> > WMs, but the problem appears to have more to do with gtk than with
> > gnome. The panels take up a tiny portion 2x24 px, but it is the extra
> > padding around the toolbar icons, the menubar titles, the tabs and
> > scrollbars and the like that is eating up the space.
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> Are there any "narrow" themes?

Back when sarge was in testing, there used to be a simple theme aptly 
named "Simple". Nowadays, the default seems to be clearlooks. I have 
changed it to 'glider' and it has saved me a few pixels. Shall search 
for some narrow looking themes and maybe copy its gtkrc.

> > This issue is not very pressing, just a bit annoying :-)
>
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