Comment 75 for bug 527267

Thanks m0sia! There is indeed still a fair bit of wasted space around each icon, but it's much better than before. (I'm using the Ambiance theme with Human controls and Humanity icons.) I suppose that's the best that can be done with a menu widget in gtk. Perhaps a custom widget really should be written up for this kind of a use case. But until then, can anyone offer up a good reason why this tiny patch still hasn't been accepted?

Also, I discovered that the volume icon can indeed be removed without having to ditch the whole indicator-applet. You can simply uninstall the volume indicator:

sudo aptitude purge indicator-volume

Same can be done for the message indicator:

sudo aptitude purge indicator-messages