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
