It would be a good idea to increase the weight of the font, make it 1-2 point better, and apply more slightly more padding between the items. Currently they look too thin and small on a default configuration. Plasma 6.1 master, KDE neon Unstable
Sorry, we can't go randomly changing the default fonts or else the system loses cohesiveness. Applying slightly more padding between the items is possible though. I see that it's a bit narrower than it is for in-window menus. But not by that much. Note that as a consequence of changing this, the Global Menu widget will take up more space on a panel, potentially squeezing out other things to the right of it.
Not changing fonts is alright, but the padding could really be improved. About the space thing, I use macOS daily, and we still have a lot of leeway in that regard :). Still lots of screen estate to space things out.
Cool. Wanna submit a merge request? I *think* all you need to do is increase the left and right margins in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/applets/appmenu/package/contents/ui/MenuDelegate.qml
The Latte Appmenu widget allows for padding to be user adjustable, and other widgets have font configuration, so those things theoretically could be adjustable. Obviously, the "all options have costs" rule applies.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > Cool. Wanna submit a merge request? I *think* all you need to do is increase > the left and right margins in > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/applets/appmenu/ > package/contents/ui/MenuDelegate.qml Sure!