GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 680593
Combobox menu popup displaced
Last modified: 2017-03-03 14:55:12 UTC
Created attachment 219632 [details] comboboxes are drawn incorrectly When a combobox menu pops up most of the time it's half empty and I have to scroll to get the invisible menu items onto my screen. (see attached screenshot) I think this is because the active menu item is being selected and centered above the combobox itself. Sometimes this is not possible depending on the screen location of the combobox and the amount of menu items. A better solution would be to just display the menu list above or below the combobox as shown here: http://www.brad-smith.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/GroupedComboBox.jpg (right combobox) The combobox itself shows the selected menu item and additionally it's shown in the menu list.
That would be a lot simpler than the acrobatics we currently do to center the active item (some of which are invalidated by horrifying things like FileChooserButton refiltering the model during popup...), and more consistent with certain other big-name GUIs.
*** Bug 689494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 622938 ***