This is no bug. It's just that GTK+ entries (the text input field used in the plugin) cannot be scaled. You can see this when you make your panel very large (e.g. give it a height of 100px). The input field height will remain the same.
** Changed in: xfce4-verve-plugin (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- [edgy] verve panel plugin does not scale https://launchpad.net/bugs/58551 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs