Hello! I am using GNU/Linux for several years now and like it very much. One issue I always disliked is the extensive space, windows managers require on the screen to display text. Because of this menus and windows become too big thus the screen looks crowded and confusing. It is the same with KDE and GNOME. For example, the GNOME panel on top of my screen is 24 pixel high. The entry "System" (which has upper case letters as well as a "y" which goes below the line) is 12 pixel high. This is 100% additional space over and below the text together. (Cp. attachment panel_menu_orig.png) For my opinion 2 pixel for example would be enough and result in a cleaner and thus virtually "bigger" screen because about 25% more information would fit on it. (Cp. attachment panel_menu_shrinked.png). This phenomenon is present whenever text is displayed. For instance the list mode in Nautilus could display much more entry without the wasted space. For example the file browser of OpenOffice.org displays four files/folders at once by default which makes it very uncomfortable to browse through a file system with more than ten files (Cp. attachment filebrowser2.png). MS Windows does this job better and therefore looks cleaner. Why not GNOME and KDE?!
Also I could not manage to customize the space consumption in KDE or GNOME. Is there any possibility to change this behaviour? If so, why it is not changed by default?! Cheers, Markus PS: I am not speaking about the font size itself which is ok for me.
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