From: Alexander Volovics awol@home.nl
If you click on 'Applications', 'Places' or 'System' on the panel you can, seemingly at random, get:
- the full menu
- a truncated menu with scroll arrows
The same goes when clicking on the menu entries.
I find this behaviour irritating and would very much like to get the full menu every time.
Does anybody know why this happens and if it is possible to configure this somewhere?
Alexander
Hi Alexander,
This an age old bug/feature of Gnome. It occurs when there is a program update or software install that adds or repopulates the Gnome menus. If you don't run Gnome while getting updates or log out and in (of Gnome) after getting updates or installing programs that add menu entries, your menus should refresh without scrolling.
Stephen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:18:52AM -0800, spmirowski wrote:
From: Alexander Volovics awol@home.nl
If you click on 'Applications', 'Places' or 'System' on the panel you can, seemingly at random, get:
- the full menu
- a truncated menu with scroll arrows
This an age old bug/feature of Gnome. It occurs when there is a program update or software install that adds or repopulates the Gnome menus. If you don't run Gnome while getting updates or log out and in (of Gnome) after getting updates or installing programs that add menu entries, your menus should refresh without scrolling.
It is indeed an old 'feature' of Gnome, but after all these years I started wondering why there seems to be no systematic or controllable behaviour.
But I doubt that there is any simple/direct relation with getting updates or added menu entries as you can get a truncated menu on first opening and then a full menu when opening a second time and vice versa.
Anyway the point might become moot with Gnome-2.18 as the system of cascading menus is probably going to be replaced with a 'control center' (a la Window's 'control panel') and this might change the behaviour of the menus.
Alexander
Alexander Volovics wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:18:52AM -0800, spmirowski wrote:
From: Alexander Volovics awol@home.nl
If you click on 'Applications', 'Places' or 'System' on the panel you can, seemingly at random, get:
- the full menu
- a truncated menu with scroll arrows
This an age old bug/feature of Gnome. It occurs when there is a program update or software install that adds or repopulates the Gnome menus. If you don't run Gnome while getting updates or log out and in (of Gnome) after getting updates or installing programs that add menu entries, your menus should refresh without scrolling.
It is indeed an old 'feature' of Gnome, but after all these years I started wondering why there seems to be no systematic or controllable behaviour.
But I doubt that there is any simple/direct relation with getting updates or added menu entries as you can get a truncated menu on first opening and then a full menu when opening a second time and vice versa.
Anyway the point might become moot with Gnome-2.18 as the system of cascading menus is probably going to be replaced with a 'control center' (a la Window's 'control panel') and this might change the behaviour of the menus.
Alexander
For development, control-center is used instead of the choices in the menu. I find the ICONs scattered and less appealing than the menu entries as in FC6. Also, having to wait for control center to load is another distraction.
Jim
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:20 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
Anyway the point might become moot with Gnome-2.18 as the system of cascading menus is probably going to be replaced with a 'control center' (a la Window's 'control panel') and this might change the behaviour of the menus.
Oh bloody hell! Must we copy every bad idea that Microsoft makes?
Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:20 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
Anyway the point might become moot with Gnome-2.18 as the system of cascading menus is probably going to be replaced with a 'control center' (a la Window's 'control panel') and this might change the behaviour of the menus.
Oh bloody hell! Must we copy every bad idea that Microsoft makes?
It is a real pita when all you want to do is launch one program. you have to wait a considerable amount of time for control-center to load, then you have to hunt for icons scattered all over creation, then your system memory is used up by control center and also takes some time to launch after the icon is found.
Except for it being even less eye appealing than the windows variant, it is always in ICON view and cannot be changed to list view. It sure would be nice for simple menu entries where you could launch a desired program to return.
Jim
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