Icons in indicator applet 0.3.7 have huge padding, an it looks very ugly.

Bug #589666 reported by Tedo
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
indicator-applet (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

That's all. It's not difficult one to fix, I guess.

Tags: patch
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Tedo (tedo-arhiva) wrote :
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

its not a bug in indicator. its the problem with the theme you are using.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

which theme are you using?

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Steve (steve-launchpad) wrote :

I have the same problem in Lucid 10.04

Depending on the theme, the icons are have a padding of approximately one icon width to two icon widths between icons.
I have tried all the themes I have installed and they all have the problem.
I have tried:
Ambiance
Clearlooks
Darklooks
Darkroom
Dust
Dust Sand
High Contrast Inverse
High Contrast Inverse Large Print
Human
Human Clearlooks
New Wave
Radiance
Unity

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Steve (steve-launchpad) wrote :

Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 2.6.32-22-generic

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

this problem seems fixed in maverick

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

can anyone please try it under Maverick. I was able to reproduce this bug in Lucid but seem fixed in Maverick.

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote :

still affecting me on maverick, spacing is much too wide. screenshot following

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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote :

I think you can recognize that the indicator-applet spacing is far too big. ;-)

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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote :

btw, possible dupe in #658606, but I'm not sure.

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Steve (steve-launchpad) wrote :

Also still affects me. I updated to Maverick, rather than a fresh install and this problem is still there. I've tried each theme that is installed on my computer and the problem exists on each of them. The extra spacing seems to vary between themes, but it is worst on Human-Clearlooks. Guess which theme I use?

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Steve (steve-launchpad) wrote :

I can't see what's incomplete about this bug by the way.

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Spyros Blanas (cid-e) wrote :

I have the same problem in Maverick with the "Human" theme. The attached hack saves about 8 pixels per icon in this theme and makes the icons more reasonably spaced.

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Spyros Blanas (cid-e) wrote :

I attach a screenshot of what I was seeing before (version 0.4.6), and how the hack made the spacing more reasonable.

tags: added: patch
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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote :

don't we have enough info (i.e. patch) to put this bug on Triaged, or do I understand bug statuses wrong (i.e. is it necessary to assign it to someone before triaging)?

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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote :

Should we upvote importance of this bug?
With the upcoming release of unity/natty, the new top panel/global menu, and increased usage of indicator-applet due to deprecation of notification area, won't space in the top panel become even more valuable? Won't wasted space between icons deteriorate usability quite heavily?

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-mono - 0.0.25

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-mono - 0.0.25

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ubuntu-mono (0.0.25) natty; urgency=low

  [Daniel Foré]
  * Major complete redraw of all the mono icons:
    - use correct consistent colors (LP: #740900)
      + Red: Critical issues
      + Orange: Warnings
      + Blue: Pure information
      + Green: Approved or "now OK"
    - providing the correct sizes
    - providing the correct spacing (LP: #589666)
    - a minor style change.
    This changes were made at the last platform sprint under the
    supervision (and at the request) of Otto Greenslade. (LP: #740540)
  * Note that both 'ubuntu-mono-dark' and 'ubuntu-mono-light' are consistent
    enough to be transformed manually using regular expressions in the
    'ambiancetoradiance.sh' script.
    - This has to be run manually. Ideally the re-colouring step
      could be moved to be part of the package build process/Makefile.
 -- Paul Sladen <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:37:22 +0000

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mikefreeman (mike-freeman-studio) wrote :

Mint suffers from this same problem, being based on Ubuntu. No matter what icons are used on my system (even Ubuntu-Mono), there is still this insanely wide spacing that looks really bad next to the older notification area. On Linux Mint 10 (Maverick-based), I had applied the before-mentioned patch through a PPA someone posted. However, moving to LM 11 (Natty-based), that PPA doesn't work. No idea how to apply a patch, and it probably wouldn't work for this version anyway. PLEASE, someone in Ubuntu do something about this. It's been a problem for too long. Maybe allow the user to select the spacing in the Indicator?

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