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Bug 91787 - Submenus can cover higher level menus making navigation impossible
Submenus can cover higher level menus making navigation impossible
Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-27 13:48 UTC by Aleksander Adamowski
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0



Description Aleksander Adamowski 2002-08-27 13:48:44 UTC
Description of Problem:

If a particular submenu in the applications menu
is too wide, it can cover its parent submenu
completely, blocking access to its sibling submenus.
A particular example of this is my installation of
Mandrake 9.0 beta4, polish language settings,
800X600 resolution, where the
Configuration->Printing submenu is the first
submenu in Configuration, and it is so tall and
wide that it blocks access to submenus that follow it.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. install Mandrake 9.0 beta4
2. choose polish language for system usage
3. configure X to run in 800X600
4. login into Gnome, open the menu at the top bar:
Mandrake->Konfiguracja->Drukowanie

Actual Results:
See the screenshot at
http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/usage/Gnome2.0/Screenshot-Printing_menu_covers_parent_menus_and_blocks_navigation.png
.
The "Drukowanie" ("Printing") submenu blocks all
other submenus.

Expected Results:

Submenus should be aligned in a more intelligent
manner, possibly reduced in size but scrolled,
when they cannot fit on screen without blocking
something.


How often does this happen? 


Additional Information:
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2002-09-10 08:00:55 UTC
404 on the screenshot. Don't full understand what you're saying either
 ... Could you reload the screenshot? You can attach it to this bug.
Comment 2 Aleksander Adamowski 2002-09-10 10:16:34 UTC
With Polish menu in Mandrake 9.0, always.
Depends on what the distributor has put into the menu and what screen
resolution is used (bigger desktop -> smaller probability of things
getting messed up)
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2002-10-24 20:11:00 UTC
Aleksander: please attach the screenshot to this bug if this is still
happening.
Comment 4 Elijah Newren 2002-12-05 07:14:15 UTC
Alexsander: Are you still there?  Can you attach the screenshot here
in bugzilla (or give us a link that isn't broken)?
Comment 5 Mark McLoughlin 2002-12-18 02:04:06 UTC
No response. Closing bug.