Re: Inconsistent behaviour of menus

[spmirowski]

>  From: Alexander Volovics <awol(a)home.nl&gt;
>
>
>  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

Inconsistent behaviour of menus

[Alexander Volovics]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:18:52AM -0800, spmirowski wrote:

>  >From: Alexander Volovics <awol(a)home.nl&gt; 
>  >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

Inconsistent behaviour of menus

[Jim Cornette]

Alexander Volovics wrote:
>  On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:18:52AM -0800, spmirowski wrote:
>  
> >> From: Alexander Volovics <awol(a)home.nl&gt;
>  
> >> 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

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Inconsistent behaviour of menus

[Tim]

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?

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Inconsistent behaviour of menus

[Jim Cornette]

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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