Print composer: Removing the legend title do not remove the blank space at the top of the legend

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Author Name: Harrissou Santanna (@DelazJ)
Original Redmine Issue: 15628
Affected QGIS version: 2.16.3
Redmine category:map_composer/printing

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When you add a legend to a print composer, by default, a string "Legend" is added as title.
If you remove this text, the space occupied by the text remains as blank at the top of the frame while in 2.14, it was automatically removed (frame was somehow resized).
This is a regression.

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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I've tested with 2.14.7 and it has the same behaviour. I'm not sure if this behaviour is by design - maybe it was done this way so that you could put a space at the top of the legend? You can always decrease the title space to 0 to get no padding.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Harrissou Santanna (@DelazJ)

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In first releases, removing the title still kept the space corresponding to title font at the top of the legend. And then that space has been removed (I can't tell in which release). Which is cleaner, imho.
I just retried with master and the spacing is not present but i have it present in one of my composers in 2.16.3 but can't reproduce it. Will dig!

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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I just retried with master and the spacing is not present but i have it present in one of my composers in 2.16.3 but can't reproduce it. Will dig!

please reopen if necessary.

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• resolution was changed from to not reproducable
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed

[Elizabethcase]

This is happening to me in QGIS3 but can be fixed by Spacing --> Title Space --> 0