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> The content has a bigger right margin than the left margin.

I might be wrong, but I think in this case it has the same coded margin, but ends up as a different visual margin because the usb stick image is probably square shaped png or svg with a transparent area, and this makes it look like it's not aligned. So, it might be case where you need the dev to have an eye for it and intentionally manipulate the paddings to get visually satisfying spacing. Usually developers just set the same value in code and think it's good enough.



That's the reason but it's ugly. And obviously the developers don't care enough to address such things.


Yeah, but even that leads to another issue, icons should be standardized so such a thing can't happen.


Yes, adjusting margins for every icon's amount of padding doesn't seem to be the right solution. I guess the solution would be to have icons without any padding, and where they should be shown centered inside a standard-sized box, that can be done in the layout code. It's going to take quite a bit of work to switch everything over.


> It's going to take quite a bit of work to switch everything over.

KDE has been around for 29 years, it will probably be around for 29+ more years.

I'd say that warrants "a bit more work", as something you can show your grandkids as being something you've built :-)


This is the correct explanation.




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