Comment 7 for bug 527267

As the 1024x768 resolution is still used on many older laptops and it's users are often trying to save some precious screen space by reducing number of panels to one, please reconsider the current width of items in indicator-applet. In attached mock-up You can see the default state in comparison with item's width reduced to 32px. I think that's possibly can be a good compromise between the eye-pleasing padding and space-saving (for myself, I'm using 1440x900 on my laptop and still can benefit from that change.).