Re: Combined system status updates

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek gentoo org>]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se> wrote:
> On 2013-05-13 16:02, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> > These look rather nice. My only concern with these wireframes is that
> > they would make the menu far too long. Would this menu still fit on
> > 1366x768 or 1024x600 screens in landscape mode?
> I too was a bit shocked to see the All Possible System Menu, but realized
> it's a very extreme case.
> Usually a menu would be top ~10 items.

I beg to differ there! On my laptop with its default setup, I would
see 13 items + 5 separators on the menu at all times (increasing to 14
with updates).

Do we have a mechanism for "scrolling" (or its equivalent) when the
menu length exceeds the screen height? How would this interact with
scroll bars inside sub-menus? Is such a mechanism desirable?

It seems to me that these problems are unavoidable with a single
consolidated menu.

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~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team