Re: Aisleriot toolbar icon spacing with gtk3 - possible bug?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, golinux wrote:

> On 2016-01-20 12:35, golinux wrote:
> > I am using Xfce DE version 4.10 on Debian Jessie.  I am re-colorizing
> > the Xfce window theme (/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and /gtk3.0/gtk.css) and found a
> > possible bug with the Aisleriot toolbar icon spacing.  Note that I
> > have only switched out colors - not mucked around with any of the
> > underlying code. The gtk-3.0 was ported from gtk-2.0 by Peter de
> > Ridder.  My email to him has gone unanswered.
> >
> > The toolbar displays as it always has with gtk2 (gtk2.png) but with
> > gtk3 (gtk3.png and gtk.css) the icon spacing is ignored. It is unclear
> > whether the problem lies there or with Aisleriot's gtk3 compatibility.
> >   EVERY Xfce gtk3 compatible theme in /usr/share/themes displays this
> > quirk and it is also happening to a lesser extent on Albatross and
> > Greybird Mac.  Any thoughts about how to track this down would be
> > appreciated.  TIA.
> >
> > golinux
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> *bump*
>
> The silence is deafening . . .
>
> Anyone?

In my coding experience gtk3 doesn't respond to attempts to tweak 
icon spacing (or not in the way that gtk2 does, nor in any other way 
that I have discovered). Specifically, in my app I have found the 
default spacing of icons in gtk3 to be too "loose" but I have not 
succeeded in tightening it; calling API that would seem to be 
relevant has had no effect.

On that basis, I suspect the issue you mention is not specific to 
Aisleriot.

Allin Cottrell