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Bug 75955 - Empty submenus should be hidden or disabled
Empty submenus should be hidden or disabled
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
1.5.x
Other All
: High minor
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 102869 126934 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-22 17:40 UTC by Calum Benson
Modified: 2015-03-24 13:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Calum Benson 2002-03-22 17:40:42 UTC 
Empty submenus on the Applications menu (or anywhere else) should be
disabled or hidden altogether.  It may be that under normal circumstances
you shouldn't get any empty submenus, but for example the Sun build adds a
"CDE Menus" item to the bottom of the Applications menu. This currently
appears whether there are any items in it or not, which looks a bit silly.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-03-26 20:05:30 UTC 
Yeah, this would be nice.
Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2002-08-11 13:10:38 UTC 
*damn* nice :-)
Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2003-01-08 19:55:07 UTC 
*** Bug 102869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Marius Andreiana 2003-07-22 12:18:33 UTC 
Empty submenus don't appear in gnome 2.2 on red hat 9.

Calum, is this still a problem for you?
Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2003-11-13 23:21:13 UTC 
*** Bug 126934 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Calum Benson 2003-11-25 17:27:28 UTC 
I'm not seeing any in 2.4 either, but obviously I don't know if that's
because they're being hidden or there just aren't any...

If I add an empty folder myself (in the Applications view), it does
still show up, which is probably the right thing to do... so are we
saying somebody's added some smarts to work out when to hide empty
folders and when not to?  If so, I'd like to see that algorithm :)
Comment 7 Vincent Untz 2005-01-01 11:26:50 UTC 
They're hidden now (thanks to gnome-menus). The other part of the bug is not
reproducable anymore for now (there's no way to edit menus now), but I'll add a
comment to bug #137953.