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Bug 658485 - Cannot select menu categories when there are too many of them
Cannot select menu categories when there are too many of them
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 651082
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-07 16:34 UTC by Melissa Newman
Modified: 2011-09-19 23:17 UTC
See Also:
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Description Melissa Newman 2011-09-07 16:34:54 UTC 
In the Ubuntu system 11.04, with the default menu file /etc/xdg/menus there are too many main menus and the user cannot select the ones on the bottom of the screen.  The Notification area blocks it.  This also causes problems with selecting the bottom row of the application icons.

The hack that I had to do to fix this was to remove some of the main menu items (combining menus), but there should be a scroll bar, so the user can select all application icons and menu items on the Applications screen.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2011-09-19 17:29:09 UTC 
Can you post a screenshot? Is this with Unity or standard GNOME?
Comment 2 Melissa Newman 2011-09-19 19:53:07 UTC 
This is on standard GNOME.  I cannot post a screenshot now, because I already cleaned up all of my computers.  Basically, keep adding application menus until they go past the bottom of the screen.  No scroll bar is automatically added, so the user can scroll down.  The also affects the drawing of the applications.

Also, I am using a netbook computer, not a full screen computer.  If I am seeing this issue and nobody else is, that may be where the problem is.  Is the application assuming a certain screen height before adding a scroll bar?
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2011-09-19 21:47:08 UTC 
So it's a gnome-shell issue, I guess.
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2011-09-19 23:17:30 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651082 ***