Everything on the Gnome desktop in Ubunut seems so large as if I was running on 800x600, but I wasn't. I do not know why, but the Ubuntu desktop team has set everything large! Actually, thinking about it I think I know why. It is for those people who prefer a things big because of their eyesight. Probably for the elderly. I guess Cannonical are trying to get Ubuntu on everybodys desktop. Not just the geeks and the young. Unfortunately I would not recomment it for my parents as there are too many teething problems that they won't be able to solve on their own. Plus, some of these solutions are far from easy. Can you imagine asking your parents to type sudo apt-get install something in the terminal? It's hard enough to explain it to my wife!
Back to the topic, I simply changed the font size by going to Preferences -> Appearance, click on Fonts tab and changed all the fonts size to 8. This makes things slightly smaller and doesn't feel like the whole desktop is running at a low resolution. Other things I did was change some of the icon sizes.
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