GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 313813
the main menu sometimes shows scrollbars
Last modified: 2007-05-10 08:40:31 UTC
sometimes when opening the main menu scrollbars are shown on the upper and botton parts of the menu, it happends even when the menu would fit nicely on the screen without the need of scrolling. This only happends sometimes, it seems that it happends when loading the contents for the first time or after a long time without it being used. If after this I close and reopen the menu everything is fine again, the menu is shown without scrollbars. Sorry I can't provide a screenshot as when that happends i can launch the screenshooter using the keybinding for some reason.
easy way to get the bug: * use a left/right panel * put a main menu icon on the top of it * put the mouse cursor somewhere on this panel further than the menu length * press alt-F1
Fixed in HEAD.
this bug is back
I can't reproduce. What is your layout? Where is the panel and where is the menu? How do you open the menu?
the menu (Main menu) is on the bottom left corner of the screen. It contains the standard items, i have not changed anything. Which is: Accesories Graphics Internet Office Programming Sound & Video System Tools ---- Places Desktop ---- Lock screen Log out diego ... Shutdown ... to open the menu i just click on it with the mouse.
Seems to happen due to the menu displaying before the icons are loaded. When the icons are loaded the vertical size of the items is increased, but the top-left of the menu is fixed, being jammed against the bottom of the screen it decides to go into scroll mode instead. Either the fixing point of the menu should be changed to reflect the panel orientation, or the correct amount of vertical space (enough to display the icons) should be reserved.
I see that this bug (along with duplicate bug #331780 and probably a few other duplicates) remains unconfirmed. However, it has existed for the past year and a half since I've begun using gnome and remains with the latest Fedora Core 5 and Dapper beta distributions (gnome-panel 2.14.1).
Just wanted to mention that this I'm seeing this bug as well, approx once a day, on an FC5 installation. (just updated to gnome-panel-2.14.2-1.fc5.1)
I'm still seeing this on Edgy installed on multiple PCs. This should be easily reproduced by placing the Menu Bar on a bottom panel and selecting a menu as soon as you log in.
I think that #321462 is the same as this bug, but occurs when the menu is in a top panel. Can someone with the permissions add #321462 as a depends-on?
I also get this bug with 2.16.1 on Fedora Core 6.
Since upgrading to Feisty I haven't had the problem any more. Seems to be fixed.
Oh, yes I fixed it a few months ago. Forgot to close all the bugs reporting it.