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Eclipse/GTK+ wasting screen real estate

Eclipse on Linux (GTK+) has rather large UI elements which wastes screen real estate. Compare the Linux version (taken on Ubuntu 9.10):

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with the Windows version:

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Note the vertical size of the Project Explorer tab, the menubar, and the toolbar. Is it possible to tweak this somehow? How does this look in other Linux distributions?

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There are some blog entries for making Eclipse GTK gui less "clumsy". Note that you have to modify the gtkrc file in most cases:

Csaba_H  2010-01-25 12:15:26
Thanks. Modifying the rc-file was something I expected I had to do.
JesperE  2010-01-25 13:07:43

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