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Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106653
Title:
Ubuntu main menu applet scales poorly
Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
Confirmed
Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “gnome-panel” package in Baltix:
Invalid
Bug description:
Ubuntu's main menu panel applet has some drawing issues with various
panel sizes, particularly when the panel is positioned at the bottom
of the screen.
The applet has the Ubuntu logo as its icon as well as an arrow (from
the current theme) indicating that it expands when clicked.
The following problem occurs both with the Human theme and the
Clearlooks theme and no other theme-related errors of this sort occur
on my machine so I think it is safe to assume the problem is with the
applet.
The error I am reporting here has to do with that arrow: Its position
seems very strange when its panel is positioned at the bottom of the
screen and it does not sit well with other panel applets. With small
panel sizes it overlaps the Ubuntu logo on its right side and with big
panel sizes the arrow is displayed so far away from the icon that it
is invisible. Evidently, the arrow's size / position is not taken into
account when the entire main menu applet's size (and thus the position
of the next applet over) is determined. At those larger sizes, the
main menu's arrow actually ends up being drawn behind a neighbouring
applet such that it is either cut off by that applet or it appears
attached to that applet. Either way ends both in confusion and a
burning pain in the eyes.
A guess for what is going on: The arrow is drawing in a correct place
when the panel is aligned to the top or left, but the applet does not
take into account the panel's position when drawing so the arrow is
drawn a distance /away/ from the icon instead of a distance onto the
icon (as it is with the panel at different alignments).
Sorry about my weird description. I know very little about how panel applets
work!
I will post screen shots below, which should show what I'm on about a lot
more clearly. Keep an eye on the arrow attached to the main menu icon.
My suggested fix is to remove the arrow since it is very small (hard to
notice) on the default panel layout, though another possibility is to have an
arrow always intentionally drawn beside / above its icon (as with the Deskbar
applet). Also, if my guess above is accurate, then I suppose the fix is
actually fairly simple.
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