Application Bar - DE font size issue help

I mentioned this a while back on this forum which faded away, so I then also made a post about this on Mantis which can be found here if anyone is interested 0010375: Desktop Environment font size increases button size - MantisBT

Ardour provides a scale setting to allow users to change GUI scale.
However it also includes a past attempt to make Ardour adjust font sizes based on Linux system settings.
On Linux system I change my DE default font size to a slightly larger size. Because of this my Application Bar uses up more vertical screen height as well as shows strange tall rectangular button shapes.

My Mantis posts requests to remove this feature, but I do not see this being worked on any time soon/if at all. In the mean time, I was wondering if anyone else experienced this and by any chance has a solution?

This just occurs with a slight font size increase, I would imagine there has to be a Linux based user that uses an even bigger DE default font size that would experience this even more?

I know that GTK2 (which Ardour uses) offered ways of editing application GUI properties such as font sizes (similar to how GTK3 offers this with CSS), that would be added to launch commands.
Ardour is a little bit different of an application so I am not sure that it will support something like this?
Does anyone by any chance know of anything like this, that could be added to Ardour launch command?

Thank you to anyone who reads this

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What distro is this? Ardour goes to significant lengths to prevent any desktop environment settings from affecting how it is drawn. If that is happening, your distro has done something to circumvent our attempts to ignore this. We are never interested in DE settings.