[Oxygen] [Bug 425874] Shorter titlebar (without smaller font) option needed: less padding

[Duncan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425874

--- Comment #2 from Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> ---
Forgot to mention, all my scaling is 1.0 (on X, obviously).  I do /not/ have
font-dpi forced but the xorg log says it's the standard 96x96. 

(Actual physical is dual 4k 75-inch TV-monitors, ~59 dpi according to the
online calculator I just googled on ddg.  Yes, I'm fighting for that titlebar
height even with that sort of screen real estate to work with, as I typically
have a video full-screen on one monitor and divide the other into a 2x2 window
grid of 1730x1080 px windows with the remainder a gkrelm sysmon.  RIP
superkaramba.  And 15 vs 30 px off the 1080 height of a single standard
grid-window is still a big deal, even if that 1080 height is ~18 inches
on-screen (with the 15 missing px being a measurable quarter inch!).)

(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1)
> Does it help to reduce the button size?

I was using small size, the smallest possible choice, already.  My first
hack-patch  added a tiny (*1.0) option, which did reduce size some, but not
enough.

So I attacked the padding, and after that I could actually set button size back
to /normal/, actually /increasing/ it from small, without increasing the
titlebar height.  (I think it might have increased it 1 px for normal, but I
was OK with that for the full-size button tradeoff, knowing I could always go
back to small if I decided to.

Once the padding was gone, tiny buttons aka *1.0 was /ridiculously/ tiny,
/much/ tinier than either the font or the titlebar (the emblems inside were
about the same size as the font was when I tried 4 pt font, unreadable), so it
wasn't worth it.  As I said, even normal was basically titlebar height, with
the existing small below that, so tiny simply wasn't useful.

But while I'm actually running normal button size ATM but with the tiny option
still in the menu as I didn't actually move that patch out of my auto-patch
dir, I'm still throwing in actually removing it from auto-patch as one of the
pre-posting tests, just in case my tiny-button addition had some other effect
and without it the small size is suddenly much bigger or something.  Literally
just moved it out for the test when I saw your reply popup in email,
matter-of-fact.

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