how to remove spacing between ActionBar icons

Once again I'm fighting with ActionBar styles for SDK 14 and above. I'm trying to remove/reduce spacing between Tab icons since the default spacing does not fit well in my design. Currently my style looks like:

       <style name="sMain" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/mTabAreaBackground</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">@style/ActionBarTabStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="mTabAreaBackground" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar.Solid">
    <item name="android:backgroundStacked">#2b2f33</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionBarTabStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar.TabView">
    <item name="android:background">@android:color/transparent</item>
    <!-- below attributes have no effect -->
    <item name="android:width">0dp</item>
    <item name="android:height">0dp</item>
</style>

I "removed" the active Tab indicator by making it transparent since my Tab icons already have one. I assumed that the spacing between Tab icons was somehow related to the Tab indicator, which was still there though I made it transparent. Therefore I tried to apply a width and height of 0 in the same style (inherited from style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar.TabView). I don't know if my assumption was incorrect or I'm doing something wrong, I also could not find any documentation/examples related to adjusting spacing between Tab icons.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

AFAIK, the spacing is because of the padding on the TabView. You should changing the padding on the TabView something like below.

<style name="ActionBarTabStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar.TabView">
    <item name="android:background">@android:color/transparent</item>

    <item name="android:paddingLeft">2dp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingRight">2dp</item>
</style>

The default padding on the TabView seems to be 16dp.