TaffyPager does not honor widgetSpacing about taffybar

[travitch]

The widget spacing setting only applies to the spacing between discrete widgets. The workspace list/pager is a single widget. You should see 0 spacing between that widget and any widgets directly adjacent to it....

As far as I can tell, the hbox containing the workspace names already sets its padding to 0. Could you post a screenshot showing the problem you are seeing? I'm not sure that having less spacing is possible with gtk without a serious re-engineering.

[joyfulmantis]

Fair Warning: I changed my label background color settings to be a little more dramatic to make this issue easier to see.

My desktop is like so http://imgur.com/wRGCsDY . As you can see I set the background color for my workspaces labels, to be different colors. There is no padding inside the labels, but only a margin outside, which makes them look ugly. I can pad them myself with spaces, but because of the margin outside it makes the workspace pager much to wide.

[virvum]

+1

[colonelpanic8]

Fair Warning: I changed my label background color settings to be a little more dramatic to make this issue easier to see.

My desktop is like so http://imgur.com/wRGCsDY . As you can see I set the background color for my workspaces labels, to be different colors. There is no padding inside the labels, but only a margin outside, which makes them look ugly. I can pad them myself with spaces, but because of the margin outside it makes the workspace pager much to wide.

@joyfulmantis @Cumgun The reason that happens is because the color set with the original TaffyPager is actually on the label, not the background of the widget itself.

The new module workspaceHUD allows setting the background color of the entire widget. (See #180)

Here is an example of workspaceHUD providing something like what you want http://imgur.com/xHmhInm . Here's an album of other looks you can get with WorkspaceHUD

http://imgur.com/a/kH6T4

[virvum]

@IvanMalison thanks a lot for your update. Would you be able to provide a configuration example?

[colonelpanic8]

@Cumgun Yes, of course. You'll need to have taffybar installed from the git repository since there has not been a release that has included these changes yet.

You'll need to set up both a taffybar.hs and a taffybar.rc.

You can check out my configuration here

I'll post a more minimal example here in a second.

[colonelpanic8]

@Cumgun Here is a minimal taffybar.hs, taffybar.rc pair

hs: https://gist.github.com/IvanMalison/8359d4a2e8ee2bc5214cca79b7d1e09a
rc: https://gist.github.com/IvanMalison/eb8ca91bb9db418742b730aeb620b71b

that should accomplish exactly what this ticket would seem to want

Here's an image

http://i.imgur.com/SggNcKV.png

[virvum]

@IvanMalison awesome, thanks a lot for your time and effort! This indeed achieves exactly what I wanted to see.