On 17 September 2014 05:19, Adam Batkin <adam@batkin.net> wrote:
On 09/16/2014 06:11 PM, Liam wrote:
On Sep 16, 2014 8:53 AM, "Bastien Nocera" <bnocera@redhat.com
<mailto:bnocera@redhat.com>> wrote:
 > Did you read this?
 >
http://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/27/gnome-design-saving-you-space-since-2009-or-so/
 >
Just because it is better than it was doesn't mean there isn't more
extraneous space that could be trimmed.

Exactly.

Compare:
http://i.imgur.com/xYR9GxV.png
vs
http://i.imgur.com/SOKXmI4.png

This is actually Eclipse making a mess of applying the Adwaita theme. Compare with gEdit's file browser: http://i.imgur.com/b52VXS2.png

IntelliJ's file browser is certainly more dense, but arguably less attractive, (note, I did drop GNOME's font size down to 9 for this screenie, because that's closer to the font size that IntelliJ uses, since it ignores GNOME's setting): http://i.imgur.com/VqqH7Gd.png

This all boils down to a matter of taste; no one theme will satisfy everybody, but that's why the toolkit can be themed. If Adwaita's use of white-space isn't to your liking you can always choose a different theme that suits your tastes better.

Cheers,
R

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