Hi David,
this sounds to me not as if you want to contribute to writing release notes, but more like you'd like to point an issue with your Gtk theme out to developers.
The Wiki is a place for noting and collaborating on documentation, not for highlighting possible problems with icon sizes.
Have you tried a recent Inkscape beta version yet (from April)? Spacing has been decreased there, it all fits again, at least with a 1050 px high screen.
As an aside - per default, the spacing is determined by the theme, as far as I know, which is probably on its way to becoming optimized for touch usage.
It's not something Inkscape can do much about (but we have recognized the issue and have both implemented an improvement for Adwaita, and are thinking about making the tool bar consist of 2 columns (optionally)).
The two-column layout will most probably not be part of 1.0, but may be implemented in a later version (e.g. 1.1).
Kind Regards Maren
Am 07.04.20 um 22:53 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Inkscape devs,
I was looking though the 1.0 Beta Release Notes, and came across screenshots showing the new Gtk+3 interface. I wanted to drop a note in the talk (discussion) section related to the need to control icon size as the current Gtk+3 icons take up roughly 200% of the equivalent Gtk+2 icons.
Specifically looking at:
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Origin_in_upper_left_pag...
This has been a huge problem for all applications that have attempted the Gtk+2 to Gtk+3 switch. As a result of the toolkit change, many of the icon bars that neatly fit in the space available on a laptop, now spill over into elipseized button menus and the actual drawing screen real-estate is reduced dramatically. Gimp has managed a reasonable balance where many other major apps and editors have failed.
I would like to follow and contribute to the discussion on the upcoming 1.0 beta release on the wiki and would therefore request a wiki account (I'm a real breathing human and not a spam bot or spammer)
Thanks.