Pictured are two single-row palettes outlined in red to make their widths easier to see. They are in a narrow space of a Finder window's sidebar. The top narrow one is showing icons, while the one below is showing text. And yes, I know I can adjust the width of the sidebar, but that wastes a lot of space.
It seems there is a minimum width the palette will go regardless of how small the text is made.
Might you enable a defaults write option to bring this down to the width of the text as it currently does when there are two or more columns, and it adjusts to accommodate the width of the widest item?
Squeezing palettes into narrow areas might be a real edge case (pun intended), but palette value is like real estate in that it's all about location, location, location .
Also, these palettes are using the Traditional style as that has the most translucent background of all the styles when the opacity is set to 0%. Still, it never goes away completely. Can the custom palette style have a 100% translucent background, or is this as close as it gets?
I think that's true down to a certain pt size and character count. It seems that 26 points is where the column width stops following the shrinking text width. I'm deliberately keeping the number of characters short to create a skinny palette. As it stands now, there seems to be a limit on how narrow the column will go.
It looks to me like there is something wrong with the text metrics on your Mac. If I try the same settings, with the same macros, on my Big Sur development Mac, there is no extra space:
If I make a transfer file and uninstall KM per the wiki to "transfer just the macros, not any settings, variables, or clipboards or the like." does that mean all the macros with variables break?
Almost all the macros with variables have come from downloads from the KM Forum. Will I need to redownload and reinstall them?
Any other suggestions as far as reinstalling or dealing with KM that might rule out some corruption of my installation?
I'll check with Apple to see if they have anything on their side.
No, it just means their values will not be preserved.
No.
But I would be exceptionally surprised if reinstalling Keyboard Maestro in any way resolves your issues. This looks like a font issue.
Silly question, but have you tried restarting? It may be something in the font cache is confused. If the font cache is stored to disk, then shift-booting might clear the cache.
Similarly, you could create another user account and see if that suffers from the same problem.
Neither shift-booting nor creating a new user account while within safe boot mode made a difference.
Something else that might be related is that for years now, the Theme Editor often stops reflecting changes being made, requiring a closing and reopening of the Theme Editor for it to work again. This is so routine now that I hardly notice it.
Also, I noticed that your test only went down to 15 points. Is it the same if you go down to 8 points?
Finally, since this seems to be confined to my setup alone, it's not worth your time. Hopefully, I'll get a new M1 (M2?) when a larger version becomes available, and from a pristine setup, the issue will pass.
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