GNOME Panel

gnome-panel should allow to set margin/padding for icons on panel

Bug #43232 reported by neutrico
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GNOME Panel
New
Wishlist
gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Gnome panel should allow to set margin/padding (top and bottom) parameter for launchers and applet icons (mixer, thrash etc.).

Currently these icons occupies all gnome-panel height and it is a big limitation when user wants to use some custom panel backgrounds.

This setting should by available with some gui or via GConf key or at last in .gtkrc

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Could you detail why that's a limitation? You can change the panel width if you want

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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neutrico (neutrico) wrote :

Yes I know that I can change panel width - limitation is that you cannot adjust padding/margin.

So, for example if you want to use gnome-panel background "borrowed" from Windows XP Luna - then this gnome-panel will look pretty ugly with icons that are scaled from top to bottom of this panel.

I just would like to set gnome-panel height to 28 and icon height to 20... currently I don't see any way to do this.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I'm not sure that would look nice with padding like that and would be easy to implement (would the padding be all around the icons, only on one direction, ...)

Ccing Vincent who is upstream. Vincent, would upstream be interested by a bug about a such feature request?

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Vincent Untz (vuntz) wrote :

Might make sense. I'll discuss with the theme people. Can you forward this bug upstream?

Thanks

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343436

Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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