Statusbar text is small

I should be in bed, but I'm not. Instead let me draw your attention to the fact that the statusbar (in Caja and Eye of MATE for example) doesn't respect the GTK font size setting.

This is annoying because the statusbar displays important information, but the text is very small. It also goes against the "GTK tradition" of having one font size for menubar, toolbar and statusbar.

Good night and thank you for working on MATE!

It depends on the theme, funnily enough. I had the same objection to it, and tracked it down to a rather bizarre piece of gtk-widgets.css. Fixing it is easy though, thankfully - just search for font-size: smaller, and remove this whole block:

/* this is absurd: it reduces the fontsize, making it accessibility-hostile for no reason,
then pads it with empty space so it doesn't even save any space!
statusbar label,
statusbar frame {
color: @theme_fg_color;
font-size: smaller;
}

statusbar frame {
padding: 2px 0px;
border-width: 0;
}

statusbar frame button.flat {
padding: 2px 0px 0px 0px;
}
*/

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Thanks a lot. This finally fixed TraditionalOk and maybe a few other themes too.