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 at 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

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