Comment 4 for bug 527267

I agree that it's a issue. It didn't used to be an issue prior to ubuntu 10.04 because hardly anything used the indicator applet, so I always removed it. Now I am forced to use it if (eg) I want the bluetooth indicator.

The indicator applet is using a standard menu with icons representing the menu headers. The number of pixels allocated for the header width is a fair bit wider than that allocated for the icon width and hence a fair bit wider than required.

I think it would be a useful enhancement if the user could configure the number of pixels allocated for header width, even if only via a setting in gconf-editor.