Kmenu: Vertical spacing?

[Kenneth]

It looks kdebase recently updated screwed the kmenu up. Somehow now, the 
vertical spacing in kmenu now looks like double spacing and so the height of 
the kmenu almost touches the top of the screen. 

Does anyone know how to adjust this vertical spacing in kmenu? 

One thing occurred to me is that it would require the ability of reducing the 
size of the icons in front of the kmenu menu item names. But just don't know 
how to!