[Users] GTK3: toolbar real-estate...

[Pierre Fortin]

On Sat, 23 May 2020 12:36:13 +0500 Nikita Zlobin wrote:

>I did not try CM3, but I'm right now trying to create own gtk3 theme
>for self - slim, compact.

Good to know...  These settings got rid of too much whitespace; but
changing padding to 1 gives good spacing -- virtually identical to CM2...

Thanks!

>Are gaps created due to CSS theme, or they are in properties?
>You could try this check - add this rule to gtk.css in your
>~/.config/gtk-3.0 (given its not overriden by something else):
>
>* {
>	min-height: 0;
>	min-width: 0;
>	padding: 0;
>	margin: 0;
>}
>
>Some widgets may disappear (combobox arrowes, check/radio-boxes).
>Consider it such a stress test. For example, I used this (though more
>extended) as start for my new theme. Its look in attachement with
>mousepad example - though it has 4px side padding for buttons... yeah,
>it's still in 'px', for now I only used 'pt' for check/radiobox sizes
>to make them visible.
>
>It seems to be trend for UI themes, more tuned for big resolutions or
>for use at touch devices. But one problem: CSS themes could
>automagically become resolution independent (give you set correct dpi)
>just by using different units than 'px' for sizes, most likely 'mm' and
>'pt'. But they are still in 'px'. Sometimes are duplicated for some
>hidpi mod. I noticed, that widget size, specified in such way, can't
>become fractional, border is always aligned bby pixels. So, using 'mm'
>and 'pt' for min-size, min-height, padding, margin and etc is more or
>less safe.
>
>In Fri, 22 May 2020 19:07:48 -0400
>Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Now that I finally have a working GTK3 version...
>> 
>> Are there any plans to optimize screen real-estate?  For example, the
>> toolbar icons, especially the down-arrows next to 'Get All', 'Email',
>> etc are really wide.  
>> 
>> The Locked, Mark, Status, Attachment headers are blank unless they are
>> widened.
>> 
>> In each case, it's like there's large margins -- if so, can they be
>> reduced or eliminated?
>> 
>> See attached image with CM2 (top of image) and CM3 in front.
>> 
>> Otherwise, looking good so far...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Pierre  
>