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Bug 528992 - Unhandsomely behaviour of Places SubMenu
Unhandsomely behaviour of Places SubMenu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 549788
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: menu
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-20 08:45 UTC by Christopher Roy Bratusek
Modified: 2009-03-05 06:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description Christopher Roy Bratusek 2008-04-20 08:45:25 UTC
(I'm not sure if this belongs to gnome-menu or gnome-panel - you'll see)

In the Places SubMenu the Removable Storages and Bookmarks are listed, too.

(Places -> [Content])

As long as there are only system-wide Bookmarks and non-GVM/Nautilus mounted storages their don't have their own SubMenu. But as soon as we add a personal Bookmark or Automount a Removable Storage all of theme go into a new SubMenu.

(Places -> Bookmarks/Removable Storage -> [Content])

And if the remove / unmount them again to the previous behaviour

(Places -> [Content])

Jumping between two MenuStructures is not very usefull.

Other information:
Screenshot (only non-GVM/Nautilus automounted storages): http://www.nanolx.org/gmnue01.png

Screenshot (with GVM/Nautilus automounted storages): http://www.nanolx.org/gmenu02.png
Comment 1 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2008-04-20 08:47:55 UTC
Uups. wrong link to the first Screenshot ( :| no edit option ):

Screenshot (only non-GVM/Nautilus automounted storages):
http://www.nanolx.org/gmenu01.png

Screenshot (with GVM/Nautilus automounted storages):
http://www.nanolx.org/gmenu02.png
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2008-04-20 11:35:39 UTC
Christopher: it's because of the number of items. We create a submenu when there are more than 5 items.

Note that it's not bookmarks but just medias here.

How would you fix this? Because it's clear that we need a submenu at some point (if you have 10 items, eg...)
Comment 3 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2008-04-20 12:12:31 UTC
>> it's because of the number of items. 
>> We create a submenu when there are more than 5 items.

I see.

>> Note that it's not bookmarks but just medias here.

On the Screenshot. But it behaves the same way.

>> How would you fix this?

I would have the SubMenu even if there are less than 5 Entries (Places -> [Bookmark/Storages]), just like I said before jumping between two structures is not optimal. Especially if you don't know why. Ok. Now I know why, 'cause you told me, but I'm sure 90%+ of the Users got no clue why their Menu behaves like that.
Comment 4 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2008-09-06 19:19:21 UTC
possible fix: bug 549788
Comment 5 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2009-03-05 06:08:01 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 549788 ***