[panel] Tall menus that don’t fit vertically on screen are on two columns

[Colin Law]

In Unity 3D or Classic, when I select the Bookmarks menu in Firefox 4.0.1 (which is too long to fit vertically on the screen) I see a single column with scroll arrows at top and bottom. In Unity-2D I get a multi column view. I realise this may just be a setting somewhere, but if so it should arguably default to single column for consistency.

In addition the items in the bookmarks menu do not have icons alongside (as they do in Classic and U3D). Perhaps this should be a separate bug. I was not sure whether to put this against Unity-2D or Firefox. Hopefully someone will redirect it if it should be under Firefox.

Using Unity-2D from daily ppa, 3.8.4.1-0ubuntu2~bzr560

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The columns layout is indeed a discrepancy between the two implementations, and Unity-2d should probably mimic the other sessions’ implementation.

Icons not appearing is indeed another, separate issue. It is tracked by bug #633339.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Not sure if this is a bug in libdbusmenu-qt itself, or if it is just the way Qt lays out tall menus by default, and if there is no way to change it?

[Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)]

This bug is not caused by dbusmenu-qt, it is in the way Qt renders tall menu. I just reported it on Qt bugtracker:

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-20283