The problem is with the svg icons. Other icon themes have no problems. If I rename gnome-netstatus-[0-9]*.svn out of the way and rebuild the icon cache, there is no extra space around the signal strength icon, but the icon still doesn't look like it's supposed to: it is scaled with no regard to proportion (see the attached image).
BTW, I have cropped the two 24x24 icons to 12x24; I don't know if extra margins would appear if I hadn't cropped them. ** Attachment added: "compare the stretched netstatus icon in the panel with the original images" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4602237/human-netstatus-icon.png -- Network Monitor Icons look stretched out on 1280x768 resolution https://launchpad.net/bugs/57626 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs