Created attachment 215044 [details]
Too large menu

gnome-shell version 3.2.2.1-4+b1, Debian testing

Menus in several GNOME applications behaves inconsistently when they are larger than the screen height:

1. Menu selects items on release rather than remaining open

2. Menu overlaps the menu entries, including itself
   - See attachements too-large-menu.png and normal-menu.png respectively

On my current resolution (1366x768) I am only experiencing this with the Evolution "message" menu, however if I change my resolution down to 640x480, I see the same issue in the Gedit "file" menu, the Nautilus "edit" and "view" menus, the Transmission "view" menu, etc. so it appears to be consistent over many (all core?) GNOME applications.


Issue 1 appears to be due to the click-release "landing" on a menu item, rather than the menu button itself, which in turn is caused by the point 2 behaviour.

(Note that if the item "landed on" is inactive the issue is not seen, since clicking it does nothing anyways.)


I'm not sure if the overlapping behaviour in point 2 is intentional (it may be a good thing to use as much of the screen for the menu as possible, or not..).

The alternative would be to do something similar to what GIMP does, see "gimp-menu.png" attachment, this would probably fix both issues in one go.

Otherwise, if the overlapping should remain, I would like to see the same behaviour when clicking and releasing on a menu which is too large as would clicking a normal menu.