Disabling icons in Xfce and GTK+ menus leaves an empty space

[rent0n]

I'm using Xubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, with Xfce 4.6
Right click on Xfce main menu --> Propreties --> Uncheck "Show Icons in Menu"
should delete icons from the menu, showing text only; this actually happens, but instead of the icon there is an empty and ugly empty space.

The same operation made in Intrepid (Xfce 4.4) removed the menu icons, without leaving any empty space on the menu.

I hope this little bug could be fixed easily, thank you.

In the attachment there is an image showing the empty space.

[lunch (launch-mailinator-com)]

This also affects Ubuntu 9.04 with Gnome: System > Preferences > Appearance > Interface > Show icons in menus

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is a xfce one and not GTK bug

[lunch (launch-mailinator-com)]

I see this additional space in every GTK2 menu without check- or radio items. The screenshot shows gedit's help menu in Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04. I don't use Xubuntu or XFCE.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for trying to help to make Ubuntu, Xfce and GTK+ better by reporting this bug. However, this is expected behaviour, mostly for the sake of consistency.
It would look ugly if entries with icons would suddenly be outlined differently than entries without icons, and different menus would look ugly as well. It was done this way because of the recent decision in GNOME/GTK+ -- I can't remember where exactly it came from -- to disable menu icons by default. However, some entries do have an icon because those are deemed important or of great use. Those are put in the extra space in front of the text of the menu entries.
The decision to do it this way was also made because it is aligned prettier this way, or that's at least the consensus upstream.