GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 561521
need padding when no icons, checkbox or radios are present in a menu
Last modified: 2009-03-16 15:29:34 UTC
When a menu does not have icons, radio items or checkboxes, the items are stuck right to the left border. Instead, there should be a padding/margin roughly equal to the space used by checkboxes/icons.
Created attachment 123035 [details] Screenshot: Mac OS X does exactly that
Actually, both Windows and Mac OS X leave enough room for a checkmark to the left of every menu item regardless of whether the item ever has a checkmark or not. http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/Aa753633.IE_file_new%28en-us%2CVS.85%29.gif This results in more consistent spacing between menus that contain checkmark items and menus that don't. I think GTK should do the same — not because it’s what Windows and OS X do, but because it’s more internally consistent. (Because relatively few menu items in Mac OS X have icons, extra space is not allotted for them. Instead, the icon takes up part of the space normally used for the text. If bug 557469 or its successor results in most Gnome menu items not having an icon, we may need to consider something similar.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 322934 ***