Unity2d in 12.04 application and incicator menus don't show full length but scroll. Unity 3d menus show full length

[keith burnett]

Description: In 12.04 Application menus in Unity 2d do not show the full length, but are shorter than normal and show small 'triangles' top and bottom. Tested on a large monitor (1920 by 1080). Clicking on these triangles allows you to scroll down or up to see all the options available in the menu. Unity shows the full menu length. In 11.10 full length of pull down menus shown in both Unity and Unity 2d sessions. Does not affect LibreOffice. First seen in and reported now from a 12.04 alpha1 install which had been updated. Confirmed by another user, and reproduced in a live session from daily build cd.

Steps to reproduce (Jan 10th i386 daily build ISO): boot into live session on PC with blacklisted graphics card, Unity2d session starts, load Firefox, click on a menu. Scrollbars apparent. Boot from same iso on a laptop with supported graphics card, Unity session starts, load Firefox, click on menu, full length of menu apparent.

Discussion: and confirmation from another user: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1906887

Screenshot: see attachment

Lack of consistency between Unity and Unity 2d is bad, and I find the scrolling menus harder to navigate, hence filing as a bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.14-generic 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 10 12:56:39 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111129.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Looks very much like bug #913237?

[Dale Beaudoin (twocamels)]

Same thing here .... here is a link for video of bug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWNMBX87UhI

[keith burnett (ping-keith-gmail)]

Yes, this looks like the issue in #913237

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.