Re: Inconsistent behaviour of menus

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

From: Alexander Volovics <awol@xxxxxxx>

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


--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Inconsistent behaviour of menus
    ... 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 after getting updates or installing programs that add menu entries, your menus should refresh without scrolling. ... of cascading menus is probably going to be replaced with a 'control center' ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: [SLE] Acrobat 7 and recent Gnome/Gtk/KDE, and who knows???
    ... > gkrellm window. ... I've too applied the last updates for gnome and kde. ... installing both desktops from the very start of the installation process. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: FC4->FC5 upgrade options -- and GUIs
    ... It was tried to assume that if a computer could hibernate or suspend, the suspend choice would show and the shutdown choice would not be available in the menu. ... It is not about user common sense as much as it is about how the menu structures are setup. ... Also with Gnome at least, the menus are always changing. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: [SLE] 9.3 woes (the epilogue?)
    ... > packages than GNOME packages and when it was all done every single display ... solve were updates of gtk that messed up my system. ... Try to downgrade gtk and see if that helps. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: A newbie - What are differences between Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
    ... website, it is said that FC is for programmers, and Redhat Enterprise ... extents to hide the shell under layers of menus upon menus, ... and the top panel in gnome drives me ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)