GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 418018
menu size and button position
Last modified: 2008-10-09 17:56:08 UTC
When a menu is enlarged the section buttons move to the top - this is quite cumbersome, makes you move the cursor a lot and it looks like the buttons are running from you. This is how a small menu looks like: http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/3982/22601274hb5.png This is what it becomes if the menu is enlarged: http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4439/46675987tq6.png You see how the buttons change place. I think it would be better if they stayed on the same place, just like this: http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/6366/74504173gt0.png That's all for now, keep it up!
The more I play with gimmie, the more I think that the menus should not change size at all. It is awkward and ugly in my opinion, why can't the menus keep their size and let the scrollbar handle items in big numbers?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gimmie/+bug/91901 David posted a similar bug report on Launchpad (the above link). He describes the same problem with his menu and button placement changing when the size of the topic menu changes. He includes the same screenshots. I have linked the launchpad bug report to this bug report. Thanks for the hard work everyone!
Gimmie is unmaintained and no work is going on anymore. If you are interested in hacking on the codebase: A fork named Mayanna exists at http://groups.google.com/group/mayanna Closing all remaining Gimmie bugs as WONTFIX. Please do not file new bugs against Gimmie. Mayanna is the project you want to use and file your bugs against. Also see http://groups.google.com/group/gimmie/browse_thread/thread/4e0f8088e08e59a6 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-bugsquad/2008-October/msg00000.html for more information. Thanks.