Padding 10 in gnome-panel

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:15 +0400, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I’m wondering why was padding 10 added to default gnome-panel
> configuration? My panel at 1280x1024 with bunch of elements has now
> difficulties to fit them all. And at smaller resolutions, for example,
> at netbooks that wouldn’t be useful at all.


The padding was added because it makes things look less crammed
together. If it doesn't work for you,
 
gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/padding 0
gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/padding
0

will get rid of it.