This is another Debian bug to get your opinion on:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=215308


The system tray in xftaskbar should box icons non-homogeneously, that
is, allow icons of different sizes without padding every icon to the
size of the largest icon. Below is a patch to fix this behavior.

Thanks,
Ken

--- xfce4-utils-4.0.0.final/xftaskbar/xftaskbar.c.orig 2003-10-12
01:38:35.000000000 +0000
+++ xfce4-utils-4.0.0.final/xftaskbar/xftaskbar.c 2003-10-12 01:38:39.000000000
+0000
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
taskbar->tray_registered = register_tray(taskbar);
}

- taskbar->iconbox = gtk_hbox_new(TRUE, 7);
+ taskbar->iconbox = gtk_hbox_new(FALSE, 1);
gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(taskbar->hbox), taskbar->iconbox,
FALSE, FALSE,0);
gtk_widget_show (taskbar->iconbox);