diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 15a846f..55290c7 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ dragged.**
 - The **Application** and **About** blocks are about 2 px tighter: every stacked
   row group in the app now shares one spacing derived from the theme rather than
   three separately tuned numbers.
+- The **Theme** dropdown is no longer flush against the **Notifications**
+  checkbox. That shared row spacing pulls rows together by one text inset, which
+  the rows above have to give but a dropdown — which paints its box out to the
+  row's edge — does not, so the gap collapsed to about a pixel. The Theme row
+  now keeps the same gap the checkbox rows have.
 
 ## 0.15.0 - 2026-07-26
 
diff --git a/src/ui/layout.go b/src/ui/layout.go
index 3c1f821..3dad52f 100644
--- a/src/ui/layout.go
+++ b/src/ui/layout.go
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package ui
 
 import (
 	"fyne.io/fyne/v2"
+	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/container"
+	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/layout"
 	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/theme"
 	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/widget"
 )
@@ -59,6 +61,17 @@ func (l minWidthLayout) Layout(objects []fyne.CanvasObject, size fyne.Size) {
 // than hard-coded so it follows a theme that changes SizeNameInnerPadding.
 func rowOverlap() float32 { return -theme.InnerPadding() }
 
+// cancelRowOverlap exempts one row from the rowOverlap() spacing of the section
+// it sits in, by padding its top edge with exactly what rowOverlap takes away.
+// The overlap assumes both neighbours are text rows: each insets its text, so
+// one padding's worth is duplicated and can go. A row whose value paints its own
+// box to the row's edge — a Select, an Entry, a Button — has no such inset, so
+// the overlap eats the visible gap instead and the box ends up flush against the
+// row above it.
+func cancelRowOverlap(row fyne.CanvasObject) fyne.CanvasObject {
+	return container.New(layout.NewCustomPaddedLayout(-rowOverlap(), 0, 0, 0), row)
+}
+
 // initialSplitOffset returns the container.Split offset that opens a horizontal
 // split with its leading pane at the given natural width. SetOffset takes a
 // ratio, but a pane's natural width is absolute, so the ratio is derived from
diff --git a/src/ui/layout_test.go b/src/ui/layout_test.go
index 32f21c5..b86c158 100644
--- a/src/ui/layout_test.go
+++ b/src/ui/layout_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 
 	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/test"
 	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/theme"
+	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/widget"
 )
 
 // TestRowOverlapMatchesInnerPadding pins rowOverlap to theme.InnerPadding, the
@@ -27,6 +28,37 @@ func TestRowOverlapMatchesInnerPadding(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestCancelRowOverlapAddsBackOneInnerPadding is the regression guard for the
+// Settings tab's Theme row sitting flush against the Notifications checkbox:
+// the wrapper must add exactly the padding rowOverlap removes, on the top edge
+// only, so the row below is unaffected and the width does not change.
+func TestCancelRowOverlapAddsBackOneInnerPadding(t *testing.T) {
+	testApp := test.NewApp()
+	defer testApp.Quit()
+
+	child := widget.NewSelect([]string{"System"}, nil)
+	wrapped := cancelRowOverlap(child)
+
+	childMin, wrappedMin := child.MinSize(), wrapped.MinSize()
+	if got, want := wrappedMin.Height, childMin.Height-rowOverlap(); got != want {
+		t.Errorf("wrapped height = %v, want %v (child %v plus one inner padding)", got, want, childMin.Height)
+	}
+	if got, want := wrappedMin.Width, childMin.Width; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("wrapped width = %v, want the child's %v", got, want)
+	}
+
+	wrapped.Resize(wrappedMin)
+	if got, want := child.Position().Y, -rowOverlap(); got != want {
+		t.Errorf("child Y = %v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+	if got := child.Position().X; got != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("child X = %v, want 0", got)
+	}
+	if got, want := child.Size().Height, childMin.Height; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("child height = %v, want %v: the padding must not be taken out of the row", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
 // TestCaptionColumnWidth covers the shapes F10's shared helper has to handle:
 // no captions, one, and several of varying length at two text sizes.
 func TestCaptionColumnWidth(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/src/ui/settings_view_layout.go b/src/ui/settings_view_layout.go
index a4928bf..6afd217 100644
--- a/src/ui/settings_view_layout.go
+++ b/src/ui/settings_view_layout.go
@@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ func newSettingsLayout(f settingsFormFields) fyne.CanvasObject {
 			settingsRow(capW, "", f.autostartStatus),
 			settingsRow(capW, "Tray", f.minimizeToTray),
 			settingsRow(capW, "Notifications", f.notifications),
-			settingsRow(capW, "Theme", f.themeSelect),
+			// Theme is the one row here whose value is not text: the Select paints
+			// a box out to the row's edge, so the section's overlap would leave it
+			// flush against the Notifications checkbox. Cancelling the overlap for
+			// this row alone restores the gap the checkbox rows have.
+			cancelRowOverlap(settingsRow(capW, "Theme", f.themeSelect)),
 		),
 		widget.NewSeparator(),
 		// Queue used to inline its own container.NewVBox at the theme's default