gnome-panel: main menu: arrow icon blemish

[deibhaid]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I believe this was submitted before for hardy.

The issue is that, with gnome-panel when the "main menu" applet is used, there is a small arrow that shows on the panel, creating a visual blemish with whatever themed menu icon people use.

the line in: gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c
could just be modified to read

"has-arrow", FALSE,
instead of:
"has-arrow", TRUE,

btw what is the reason for having the arrow there?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, could you make a screenshot showing the issue?

[deibhaid (deibhaid)]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 09:29 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> thank you for your bug report, could you make a screenshot showing the
> issue?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the screenshot is not an ubuntu one

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

commented too quickly, I see what you mean now, that doesn't concern the default menu applet but the one menu variant

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the icon looks good when using the default theme and that's an upstream choice, that should really be discussed on bugzilla.gnome.org rather when people writting the code will read the bug, could you open a bug report there?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Any news? did you opened a bug upstream? may you tell us the bug number? thanks.

[deibhaid (deibhaid)]

Thanks for the follow-up. That encouraged me to actually file it. When
you're working, sometimes things are left behind. the bug number is:
Bug #562247 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562247>

Again, thank you very much for the followup. Keep up the excellent work!

-David

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Any news? did you opened a bug upstream? may you tell us the bug number?
> thanks.
>
> --
> gnome-panel: main menu: arrow icon blemish
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291463
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "gnome-panel" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
> I believe this was submitted before for hardy.
>
> The issue is that, with gnome-panel when the "main menu" applet is used,
> there is a small arrow that shows on the panel, creating a visual blemish
> with whatever themed menu icon people use.
>
> the line in: gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c
> could just be modified to read
>
> "has-arrow", FALSE,
> instead of:
> "has-arrow", TRUE,
>
> btw what is the reason for having the arrow there?
>

--
-David Bryson

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks you for sent it upstream to GNOME.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598196.

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

This issue has become more apparent since the icon used by default has become a grayscale icon. Also no other panel applets / indicator applets have an arrow overlaid.

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

And the new light theme makes it even more apparent.

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

My arrow points down.. Which I believe is to mean that there is a menu below it. I suspect it is supposed to be there by design.

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

Yes, the arrow points in the direction that the menu will expand. However
the arrow on top of the icon doesn't look right. The indicator applets also
have menus when you click on them, but don't have arrows. Hence I question
the need of an arrow on the menu.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Chris Johnston <email address hidden>wrote:

> My arrow points down.. Which I believe is to mean that there is a menu
> below it. I suspect it is supposed to be there by design.
>
> --
> gnome-panel: main menu: arrow icon blemish
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291463
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Vish (vish)]

Closing theme task , as this needs to be fixed in the applet. Not much the theme can do here.

[ethana2 (ethana2)]

Turns out for the end user to fix this on their own machine, which its inelegance would almost drive them to do, they have to literally modify source code and recompile the applet. Seriously. For one boolean.

Anybody have any luck changing the boolean with ghex2 instead of going through a recompile? I've had to use ghex2 to un-cripple Compiz' genie effect before, it's a lot quicker than rebuilding a package and doesn't have nearly as many environmental dependencies.

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

The main menu is now the default menu in Natty - this really should be taken care of.