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Bug 621341 - add padding around status icons
add padding around status icons
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 583273
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: notification area
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 140764 584650
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-12 04:41 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2010-07-14 17:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Matthias Clasen 2010-06-12 04:41:05 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #583273 +++

Some status area implementations (most importantly the GNOME one) add a few pixels of padding around the socket that the status icon is added to.  This is done mainly so that the icon image itself doesn't contact the edge of the screen or the adjacent widgets.  One of the big downsides to this approach is that the active clickable area for the status icon cannot extend to the edge of the screen and therefore we lose out on one aspect of Fitt's Law.

So, one option (suggested by Owen) is to move some of this padding into the icon itself.
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2010-07-14 17:16:54 UTC 
583273 has a patch

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 583273 ***