Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Many of the complaints that I see directed at KDE 4 mention the size of the widgets, fonts, panels, and other elements. Many people find them wasteful of screen real estate. Although all these elements can be configured individually, KDE 4 needs a Super-Tiny theme preconfigured and preinstalled for these cases. In this bug I will collect mention of the apparently "wasteful" elements and use that to create an appropriate theme.
Agreed. Also, take a look for example at Plastik theme in KDE3.5 and its much worser version Plastique in KDE4. Even with the same fonts Plastique has larger buttons and menu bars as if they were designed for Chinese ideograms.
I disagree though that it should be one special super-tiny theme.
This is not an artistic bug most of those issues are completely technical and have to do with the way Qt paints in the canvas.
Is the panel themeable at all? I mean can you remove the unnecessary spaces from the pager plasmoid by defining a new theme?
yeah you can to some extent not much dough...
Those interested in space-saving measures might also be interesting in these bugs: Ability to place a toolbar on the right of the menu bar https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169043 Collapse menu bar into icon https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211304
These days I see more criticism of things being too small lol. You can't please everyone, and things are generally quite configurable. If you want everything to be smaller, all you have to do is reduce the font size.