Decrease icon padding size

[phillip-white-sociomantic]

Would it be possible to decrease the icon padding size on the applet?

In /usr/lib/mate-indicator-applet/mate-indicator-applet-complete there is GtkMenuItem::horizontal-padding = 0, however it doesn't seem to have any effect.

[phillip-white-sociomantic]

I found a wee work around. If you go to Mate Tweak, and choose Netbook as the panel layout, and then go back to "Redmond" (menu at the bottom) the "Notification Area" applet now shows running apps:

Not sure if this is a bug... but it's a good bug :)

Still, would be nice if we can change the padding size with mate-indicator-applet

[CodeMouse92]

Definitely would be useful.

[FaberfoX]

The layout change on Ubuntu Mate 18.04 does nothing, spacing is still the same on the Netbook layout. Past fixes that involved creating ~/.gtkrc-2.0 are not working either.
Any ideas that work on 1.20.0-1?

[zezic]

@FaberfoX I use this:
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

.mate-panel-menu-bar menuitem {
    padding: 0 2px;
}

[14v]

Used padding: 0;, 0 2px gives still bigger free space.

[14v]

There is the issue with zero vertical padding - tray context menus padding is affected. padding: 4px 0; is correct for me.

[zezic]

There is also an issue with padding of global menu applet, because its elements are also affected by .mate-panel-menu-bar menuitem selector. It would be nice if someone could provide a way to negate selector against global menu widget or to narrow it to tray applet.

[lukefromdc]

One way to counter that would be to give the applet a widget name, allowing that to be explicity themed and override the more general .mate-panel-menu-bar menuitem

[trongthanh]

@zezic I'm also a fan of global menu and have the same issue with yours. So I dive into the vala-panel-appmenu source code and found the selector they used. So here, in the custom ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, I add back the global menu items padding with below CSS:

.mate-panel-menu-bar menuitem {
    padding: 2px 2px;
}

.-vala-panel-appmenu-private > menuitem {
    padding: 2px 6px; /* vertical then horizontal paddings */
}

You can increase the 2px vertical padding if your panel height is bigger.

[yermulnik]

Apologies for resurrecting old issue but the below hack didn't work for me:

> cat  ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
.mate-panel-menu-bar menuitem {
    padding: 0;
}

Padding still looks awkward =( Any hints?
I'm on Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia with Mate 1.18.* (don't know what is the exact name of the mate component that is responsible for notification area in the panel).

[bechampion]

gotta do it in the theme you're currently using.
eg:
/usr/share/themes/dracula/gtk-3.20/gtk.css

[yermulnik]

@bechampion Thanks. I will try this out.