Re: Distance between menu items

[Seth Nickell <snickell redhat com>]

Larger targets are easier to move the pointer to quickly. GNOME is setup
to fit on 800x600 screens. The applications menu is one of the most
frequently accessed menus.

-Seth

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:20 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I noticed that the distance between menu items in GNOME 2.6 is much 
> larger then in 2.4. Therefore you can for example not have too many 
> bookmarks before they go off the screen especially on low resolution screen
> 
> I made two screenshot. Gnome 2.6 in Debian
> See http://ftp.haitsma.org/debian-gnome.jpg
> and one in Fedora Core 1 with Gnome 2.4
> See http://ftp.haitsma.org/rh-gnome.jpg
> 
> In Debian Gnome 2.6 the menu items are 30 pixels apart and in Fedora 
> Gnome 2.4 only 24 pixels.
> 
> I also found a screenshot of somebody running Gnome 2.6 on Fedora Core 
> 2. See 
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/marketing/en/2004/two-six-screenshots/html/large/Jorge_Castro_templates.png
> 
> There the menu items are also very far apart.
> 
> I asked about this on the gnome-gtk debian list (See 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2004/07/msg00025.html ) and 
> they suggested to post it overhere. More people were seeing this change 
> from 2.4 to 2.6
> 
> Was this designed on purpose during Gnome 2.6? Is there anyway to change 
> this setting. I would love to have them a bit closer.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Jaap
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