Of course, much of my preference could come from the fast that, on windows, most everything else looks "old and crisp" anyways. On mac or ubuntu, everything looks "bubbly", so geany looks very in-place there. But on windows, pretty and bubbly sticks out like a sore thumb.
Its certainly one thing to have a preference about crisp, vs bubbly, but I think we can all agree that the extreme spacing is a little.... extreme :)