Comment 18 for bug 30146

I don't think it's directly linked with package management as much as
that being the best example of the bug.

If the menu contents change, then the next time the menu's open gnome
has to reload all the menu icons. When it opens it draws the menu with
enough space for the menu item names, but then has to expand it to fit
the icons - and if there's not enough space at the bottom of the
screen it scrolls instead.

I imagine you could fix the problem by forcing it to load the icons
before drawing the menu on screen, or redrawing the menu once they're
loaded anyway.

On 12/21/06, Jeff250 <email address hidden> wrote:
> Yeah, I don't believe that this bug has anything to do with restarting
> the system.
>
> It's fairly reproducible by installing packages that affect the gnome
> menu. Take the game "atomix" for example. It puts a menu entry under
> "Games". So to reproduce, insure that your menu is working correctly
> beforehand. Then install atomix and atomix-data in Synaptic. Now the
> menu will behave buggily. Then look at all of the sub-menus until they
> display correctly again. Then you can reproduce this bug again by
> uninstalling atomix and atomix-data!
>
> This might not be a bug so much with gnome-panel as it is one with how
> Ubuntu's packaging system messes with the menu.
>
> --
> gnome-panel doesn't show all menu items
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/30146
>