Unity

Global menu items hidden when not enough space is available

Bug #883776 reported by __alex__K on 2011-10-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #655184: Top bar - Menus should be condensed to fit panel/overlay of appmenu. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When there is not enough space for the global menu to show all the menu items then the some are hidden. This is a particular problem on netbooks and applications that have a lot of options in the menu (such as gimp). See screenshot, all the options after "Color" are hidden and can not be accessed. I've tried that in a Mac (by setting the resolution to a very low value) and what it does is obfuscates the applets ... which I don't really like either. I believe that when the menu is shown (mouse over the global menu) the panel should take preference in the menu and hide the applets temporarily instead.