Quite some time ago a Plasma update caused all the menus of KDE apps to become in my mind a bit excessively padded out. Compare e.g. the context menu of Firefox:
to the context menu of dolphin:
Is there a simple way to make these menus more regularly sized again?
Oh, bummer. Thanks for the info though
And I apologize for the sudden change. But lessons have been learned 
No worries, but I do second the idea of having a more “dense” UI mode/style in general for smaller screens, to not waste so much space. For example I’ve also changed the Breeze window decoration button size to “tiny” to be more reasonable for my 1080p display. So it would be really nice to have sort of a meta-setting to make everything more tight…
Anyway, sorry for the ramble, and thanks for working on this.
With Union that should be possible. I really want to make it happen too, I would choose different values as well.
But Union still requires a lot of work, and that time is much better spent in Union than trying to fix our old styling system.
Just wanted to make it clear that this will be fixed in 6.5.4. The size is bit bigger than before, but not as big as it is now.
Is there any rough timeline on this? When will we get union? 6 months? 1 year? 2 years?
Hard to say.
I’d say within 6 months we should at least be already in testing phase? At least for the QtQuick part.
@ahiemstra would know better.
You could reinstall an older version and pin that until 6.5.4 becomes released.
There are still a lot of current laptops with screens that are only 768px in height. Such menus were difficult enough with the before-size. Unusable with the after-size.
Ideally we would allow users to change the density, but in our current theming system, it’s very time consuming to make it work nicely, and requires a lot of changes and testing.
If it becomes practical, it will be vastly appreciated.
Oh no, this is intentional?
I haven’t updated yet, Manjaro hasn’t released the update yet. But I absolutely detest this trend of increasing padding in UI elements. Way to reverse any advantage gained by increasing resolution!
I hope the developers reconsider or at least provide users a way to adjust
The spacing in the firt post was a bug
It will be ajustable in the future accurding to above comment Menus are excessively padded, how to change? - #12 by akselmo
I still think it’s a bit big, but it doesn’t look bad at least.
Out of curiosity, I did some side by side comparing with other context menus
Would it be alright if I submitted a patch to breeze that allowed the user to customize this feature?
Sure, just make sure that:
It’s a lot of work and you will likely have to expose it to the QtQuick style somehow (qqc2-desktop-style).
Might as well submit a patch to Union while you are at it
Hi!
Thanks for getting back. When you are free, do you think you can take a look at my merge request? No pressure, I understand that we all have busy lives: Menu: Added options to adjust density (!574) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Breeze visual style · GitLab
I’ve tested it to work on Dolphin, Konsole, System settings, and the Plasma shell. Unfortunately, not yet with Neochat but I suspect that’s because I need another patch to qqc2-desktop-style. I’m not entirely sure how I can make it respect the application style settings, as I don’t see any code within the repo that can read/respect those settings. But maybe I could be the one to add the plumbing for that Otherwise, I’d love some pointers.
That’s probably a good idea. I’ll give it a try later
This is the hard part. You will have to create the whole system before we can think of merging any of this in.
Look at this issue for what I had to work on when making sure separator colors are customizable across the stack: Customizable outline contrast (plus high contrast accessibility) (#108) · Issues · Teams / KDE Visual Design Group / Issues · GitLab
edit: Also wrote a blogpost about it Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma
