Menus get truncated

[mbpcoder]

Original Subject: edit menu problem in linux

hi
i am using Brackets on Ubuntu
i installed a lot of plugins and my edit menu is full of items
i can't see the last of items in menu.
thanks

UPDATE:
The most common case was fixed for HTML main menus. This still needs to be fixed for:

• native menus
• Recent Project dropdown
• context menus - note that context menus are repositioned if near edge of window, but could still truncate if entire height exceeds viewport height
• Maybe improve html menus solution?
• Maybe some other drop downs?

[pthiess]

@mb-programmer Thanks a ton -- there is some work going on in this area right now... looks like a top level search menu #7483 will create room and solves your issue. Assigning this to @ingorichter for tracking.

[peterflynn]

Adding Sprint 39 milestone just to ensure this regression is fixed before next release

[peterflynn]

Also, just to note: the long-term solution here will be true native menus on Linux -- we're actively looking for someone who can help us with that implementation work

[lkcampbell]

It should also be noted that, even though #7488 is going to help with this problem, I can't guarantee that it will solve it. It really depends on how many extensions you have and how many menu items those extensions are loading into the Edit menu. Like @peterflynn said, this won't really be completely solved until we get some Linux Native menus that have the ability to scroll.

[peterflynn]

And in fact, the HTML-menu problem will still be relevant for the in-browser branch even once Linux native menus land. So we'd certainly be happy to take a PR that fixes the HTML menus too, at any time :-)

[marcelgerber]

Btw, I found the GNOME API for menu entries: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ch01s05.html#id-1.2.3.7.8
@JeffryBooher

[redmunds]

Added Fix in Progress label (See #7693).

[redmunds]

@mb-programmer This was fixed for HTML Menus (currently used in Linux) for Sprint 39. Leaving this issue open because it needs to be fixed for other cases.

[redmunds]

Added "Needs Review" label to decide if any of this work should be done for Brackets 1.0 .

[pthiess]

Closing this bug as there doesn't seem remaining work we haven't tracked elsewhere.

• problem reported seems solved
• Native Menus -- See also: https://trello.com/c/WMB6vtwO/893-linux-native-menus and [PM] No Native Linux Menus #7236
• Recent Project drop-down: Height of recent project dropdown list is limited to the Brackets window height. #1497
• HTML Menus (currently used in Linux) for Sprint 39
• we don't know if this happens on other platforms