Regression: panel spacing gained a little weight

I just upgraded xfce4-sensors-plugin from 1.3.92 to 1.3.95, and I noticed a bit of unnecessary whitespace was added.

Not by any means a major issue, but it's a bit of an eyesore when the rest of my panel is so compact.

Here are some images for comparison:

I experience the same issue with version 1.3.95.

Looks like amount of redundant space depends on the Number of rows setting of the Xfce panel.

With Number of rows equal to 5 I have the following state:

Decreasing the setting to 2 gives much smaller "fields" (the panel itself becomes quite inconvenient, though):

I also encountered this after updating XFCE 4.14 to 4.16 today with the Manjaro stable update. Here's how it now looks:

I drew the red box to show the space that xfce4-sensors-plugin is now taking.

I also have this running in a vertical panel on the left. I had previously had "Number of text lines" set to 10. However, even if I set "Number of text lines" to 1, the issue is not resolved.

Same issue after xfce update on manjaro, plugin version is 1.3.95, panel is in deskbar mode.

mentioned in issue xfce/xfce4-panel#451 (closed)

I've tested again today and this issue is still relevant.

changed milestone to %v1.4.0

mentioned in merge request !17 (closed)

I've tested again today with a build from the latest revision and this issue is still relevant. I see there's a merge request from @stergem to fix this. Can that be reviewed and/or merged soon? My desktop is pretty messed up from this issue. Thanks so much for reading this!

Today, I am resuming work on release 1.4.0. I will review the MR.

mentioned in merge request !18 (merged)

mentioned in merge request !19 (merged)

closed with commit 3a623a4f

This change finally hit my desktop and fixed this issue. Thanks soooo much! My panel looks beautiful now.

The issue is now resolved (version 1.4.1)

Thanks a lot!