Menu items/menubar on toy menu program default to size of entire window?!?!?

[Christian Seberino <seberino spawar navy mil>]

Here is the menu parts of my code.  It compiles and runs
great without errors except that
The menu items, which are "File" and "Help" are huge
vertical buttons instead of small buttons on a small
horizontal menu bar.  What determines size of menu items
and what makes them to take up all vertical space by
default???

Chris

static GtkItemFactoryEntry theMenu[] = {
  {"/_File",            NULL, NULL,            0, "<Branch>"},
  {"/File/_New",        NULL, printHelloWorld, 0, "<Item>"},
  {"/File/<Separator>", NULL, NULL,            0, "<Separator>"},
  {"/File/_Quit",       NULL, gtk_main_quit,   0, "<Item>"},
  {"/_Help",            NULL, NULL,            0, "<LastBranch>"},
  {"/Help/_See Docs",   NULL, NULL,            0, "<Item>"},
  {"/Help/_About",      NULL, NULL,            0, "<Item>"},
};

...

  accel = gtk_accel_group_new();
  item_factory = gtk_item_factory_new(GTK_TYPE_MENU_BAR, "<main>", accel);
  gtk_item_factory_create_items(item_factory, sizeof(theMenu) / sizeof(theMenu[0]), theMenu, NULL);
  gtk_accel_group_attach(accel, GTK_OBJECT(window));
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), gtk_item_factory_get_widget(item_factory, "<main>"));
  
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Dr. Christian Seberino
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