Changing Menu Spacing

[geraldh]

I'm dabbling with Epyrus at the moment and it looks like a great replacement for my Interlink . The menu items are quite widely spaced on Epyrus 2.1.2 on my system (Linux Mint XFCE 20.1). Is there a way of reducing this a little? Thank you.

EpyrusMenu.jpg

[geraldh]

I've done a bit more digging and it is the classictb2-epyrus-2.1.0 theme which seems to generate the greater vertical spacing of the menu items. I prefer the classic look, so I'll see if I can tweak the classictb2 theme to reduce the spacing.

[Moonchild]

it might be the theme combined with GTK3.
The funny thing is I use classictb2 myself exactly for the reason of reducing item spacing because the default theme is too widely spaced for my taste. Curious that it causes the opposite on LM.

[athenian200]

I've done a bit more digging and it is the classictb2-epyrus-2.1.0 theme which seems to generate the greater vertical spacing of the menu items. I prefer the classic look, so I'll see if I can tweak the classictb2 theme to reduce the spacing.

I don't officially support the ClassicTB2 theme, and I believe the current maintainer of the theme doesn't run Linux, so it could probably use a few tweaks on that platform in particular. Theming on Epyrus probably works a little differently from on Interlink anyway, especially on Linux, but really on all platforms because Interlink's UI was based on SeaMonkey's mail component adapted to the Thunderbird backend, while Epyrus is basically running a fork of Thunderbird's original UI adapted to look a bit more like the Pale Moon UI, and is for better or worse unique among UXP-based mail clients to the point that it would affect how themes work.

Note, I make no guarantees that any Epyrus themes besides the default will work as intended, because as we say, it's the job of themes/extensions to adapt to the application. One thing you can try that sometimes helps, though, is switching your GTK theme to Adwaita (or at least something with more similar metrics like Menta) before applying a custom theme to Epyrus. Using custom GTK themes paired with custom Epyrus themes sometimes makes things look wonky.

[geraldh]

After having a play with the classictb2-epyrus-2.1.0 theme I think I may have eventually found something that seems to work. The problem seems to reside in the menu.css file. I tried changing variables in this file and was making a bit of progress, but then I decided to look at my favourite Palemoon theme Moonfox3. I discovered that this theme seems to have a kind of Linux override[?] in /chrome/os/linux/global/ with a Linux specific menu.css file. I replaced the classictb2-epyrus-2.1.0 menu.css file with the Moonfox3 menu.css file and the menu spacing is now much better. I imagine that this hack may not be entirely risk free[?], but so far it seems to work OK .

EpyrusMenu.jpg

[athenian200]

After having a play with the classictb2-epyrus-2.1.0 theme I think I may have eventually found something that seems to work. The problem seems to reside in the menu.css file. I tried changing variables in this file and was making a bit of progress, but then I decided to look at my favourite Palemoon theme Moonfox3. I discovered that this theme seems to have a kind of Linux override[?] in /chrome/os/linux/global/ with a Linux specific menu.css file. I replaced the classictb2-epyrus-2.1.0 menu.css file with the Moonfox3 menu.css file and the menu spacing is now much better. I imagine that this hack may not be entirely risk free[?], but so far it seems to work OK .

That's great news!

Maybe something like that should be added into the theme?

Yeah, I mean of course it has risks, but it's always good to play around with themes yourself and fix your own problems. Hacks like that are how people learn to work on themes and add-ons in the first place.