Inconsistent behaviour of menus

[Scott van Looy]

Today Steven Stern did spake thusly:

> Tim wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 13:50 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Haven't seen that.  You should also state which Window Manager you're
>> using (KDE, Gnome, something else...).
>>
>
> I see the same thing, using Gnome.  Thanks to the OP for the question.

It's someone copying a bad UI decision by Microsoft that they've long 
since abandoned ;)

If your menus are long, they are truncated, with only the most frequently 
used applications appearing and then an extra arrow to expand the menu to 
its full size. After expanding the menu, it'll "remember" for a short 
time that you want to see it expanded, before reverting back to the 
previous behaviour...

I'm nowhere near Gnome at the moment (which should /so/ be a song title) 
but http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5309/6mkpaojcl may help? If not, 
I may be able to help more when I'm home and can fiddle...

Alternatively, organise your menus into submenus and you'll see that they 
no longer do this (I've never noticed gnome doing this because I've got 
no long menus)

-- 
Scott van Looy - email:me at ethosuk.org.uk | web:www.ethosuk.org.uk
site:www.freakcity.net - the in place for outcasts since 2003
PGP Fingerprint: 7180 5543 C6C4 747B 7E74  802C 7CF9 E526 44D9 D4A7
       -------------------------------------------
       |/// /// /// /// WIDE LOAD /// /// /// ///|
       -------------------------------------------

Can you MAIL a BEAN CAKE?