I was messing around with the grey theme to see if widgets looked good 
as buttons. I've decided they don't, for some of the reasons you 
mentioned and a few others, so I've reverted the changes. Problem 
solved.

In the grey theme, in IMP.

The links (forward, delete, etc) have a 1px border around them that 
seems to hug the text too tightly. On my installation I did a quick 
check and adding padding seemed to help, but I must have missed any 
layout problems.

This doesent seem to be a problem in any other themes that I've check 
thus far. But its somewhat annoying in 'grey'.

No, that would badly break the layout of the action bars. Where do you 
think would a widget class element require more padding, on which 
screen?

I think it definatly should go in horde/themes/screen.css rather then 
in just the Grey theme:



Index: screen.css

===================================================================

RCS file: /repository/horde/themes/screen.css,v

retrieving revision 1.22

diff -u -r1.22 screen.css

--- screen.css  8 Mar 2005 16:23:55 -0000       1.22

+++ screen.css  8 Mar 2005 17:26:20 -0000

@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@

      color: #224;

      font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;

      font-size: 11px;

+    padding-left: 5px;

+    padding-right: 5px;

  }

  a.widget:hover {

      color: blue;

The Grey theme in horde CVS could use a fix for the widget style. The 
following patch adds 5px of padding on the right and left of the style.



Not sure if this should actually go into horde/themes/screen.css so 
that it affects all styles.



Index: screen.css

===================================================================

RCS file: /repository/horde/themes/grey/screen.css,v

retrieving revision 1.12

diff -u -r1.12 screen.css

--- screen.css  8 Mar 2005 16:23:55 -0000       1.12

+++ screen.css  8 Mar 2005 17:18:00 -0000

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@

      color: #333;

      background-color: #ccc;

      border: 1px solid #aaa;

+    padding-right: 5px;

+    padding-left: 5px;

      font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;

      font-size: 11px;

      font-weight: bold;