Vertical padding in menus is too large

[rparree]

Summary

The vertical padding in my menus are too large.

I did change my font size (File | Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance) to size 20

Environment

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 Beta (Ultimate Edition)
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[mallowigi]

There's a setting for that. Please read the doc.

[rparree]

Before posing, I looked everywhere in the settings and searched for known issues. Tried again, but can't find it. Was only able to find disabling the padding all together.

[mallowigi]

Really? https://material-theme.com/docs/configuration/compact-settings/#compact-menus

[rparree]

As i said, that disables the padding all together. When padding is enabled, the padding is too large.

Is it proportional to the font size? (that would explain why mine is too large).

tx.,

[mallowigi]

I don't think so, this is the regular size for non padded settings. I can take a look but as far as I remember they are not related. However it is indeed related to the scale, but from the screenshots they look like regular padded menus (all things considered I do think they are too large though, I'll try to add a setting to fine tune it so that people can select their own padding size)