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On a slightly related note. I would really like to see this fixed in Ubuntu for me to really enjoy it as a developer:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/220357/improve-eclipse-user-i...

I just replied to this on Ask Ubuntu (including screenshots). You can reduce the padding a bit with a .gtkrc file and/or custom GTK themes. This and some font-tweaking on the same file should be good enough.

going on preferences->appearance and changing the theme from GTK to classic made it much better for me (will look just like previous version). Also, in classic mode, the UI fonts are integrated with the window manager so you can change them, make them smaller, etc...

The classic look suffers from the same issues. The padding is far too heavy on most of the UI elements.

If you use Eclipse on OSX or Windows with a lot of project folders loaded at once, you will see how much better it is than on Linux.

Maybe this is the issue I'm having when trying to explain the problem I'm facing. A lot of people seem to think that I'm complaining about the new Juno interface when this issue has been around much longer than Juno.

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