Gtk 2.4.4: Smaller panel icons

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Bernhard Walle wrote:

> * Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> [2004-07-12 21:31]:
> > Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > 
> > > I use Xfce 4.0.6 and upgraded to Gtk 2.4.4. The result is that the
> > > panel icons are smaller than with Gtk 2.4.0.
> > > 
> > > See http://turing.fh-landshut.de/~bwalle/screenshot.png
> > > and http://turing.fh-landshut.de/~bwalle/panel_new.png
> > > 
> > > Is this intended, not possible in another way or a bug?
> > 
> > This is exactly what caused the cropped icons bug. You would have seen 
> > that if you had used xfce 4.0.5. Gtk changed the size allocation for 
> > buttons to include padding for a focus indicator, which leaves less 
> > space for the icon; how much less depends on the theme.
> 
> I saw that GtkButton::focus-padding in the theme setting is
> responsible for this. 
> 
> Is there no way to apply another setting only for panel buttons? In
> "Very small" mode, the icons are a bit too small now, in my opinion. 

you could probably do that like so:
g_object_set(G_OBJECT(button), "focus-padding", some_small_int, NULL);
but i'm not sure of the wisdom in messing with people's themes...

	-brian