Top bar - Menus should be condensed to fit panel/overlay of appmenu

Thanks for reporting this bug and help to make ubuntu better.
Can you file a screenshot please?

btw, it's not anymore UNR. It's called since lucid UNE and the project is now called unity.

ok, good, now we have enough info :) what is your resolution btw?
(please use ubuntu-bug unity next time so that we can have all relevant info).

in addition to the resolution, your locale can help, thanks!

Resolution is 1028x600 (notebook is Samsung n150)
Ok, i will use ubuntu-bug from now, thank you

LANG=ru_RU.utf8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_ALL=

great, thanks a lot for the info :-)

Thank you for a quick response! =)

Oops! Resolution is 1024x600

+1
this makes unity quite useless for me. In landscape it's okay most times (not if there is a lot of stuff in the notification bar though), but I have a Tablet-PC and like to use it Portrait mode quite frequently, and then this Problem appears most of the time (at a resolution of 768x1024)

It would also help if it was possible to remove stuff from the status bar, like the "username menu"

This is still valid with latest Unity.

John, we really can't auto-scroll menus. We could switch to a vertical
layout:

  File View Edit More
                 Tools >
                 Options >
                 Window >
                 Help

But auto-scroll... not ;-)

Mark

This doesn't help much, but in the context of the texmaker screenshot above. This application would have difficulties displaying this menu on anything but a fully maximised window on this resolution.

If you take away the ubuntu logo, and the indicators the menu would only just fit in the horizontal space. I'm not really sure what to suggest to fix this. A vertical menu doesn't really light my fire if you know what I mean.

I think the default font size should be changed from 10 to 9, thus will fit most of the long menus, it is still quite visible and it looks more professional.

I have three very early test cuts of Ubuntu Condensed (different levels of horizontal condensation), these aren't ready for general testing or variation, but it might be good to test these in anger... pester me if somebody is working on this.

For information, here is how it looks like in Unity 2D: http://people.canonical.com/~kaleo/unity/long_menus.png

Florian, screenshot without a pointer covering the interesting bits
would be more useful :-)

@Mark, yep, that was silly :) Screenshot updated.

Would it be worth expanding the ">>" menu to be a bit larger.

One could possibly even be really cunning and make it proportional in size to the number of sub-menus it is replacing. (">> (2)" or ">>>>" ">>>>>>>").

No, please just use "More" and leave it at that. We'll need to make sure
top-level hotkeys (like Alt-H) jump all the way to the correct end menu.

Mark

Some programs show overleaped program titles and menus. So you cannot see what you're doing on the screen. This is the same problem but on the left end of the panel. Who can tell me what ActualiFile is? Longer program names disturb the menu items and make them go blind.

FWIW, here's a screenshot of my netbook/tablet (Asus EeePC T101MT) in portrait mode as already mentioned by sanktnelson (comment #12). Of the 7 menus of gedit, only the first two are visible.

In view of this, I would prefer a "More" button that is considerably small (not wider than, say, the height of the menu bar; though it still has to provide enough area to be clickable reasonably easily). Also note that in some cases, it might happen that no more than one menu icon (or not even that) can be displayed (in which case a button labeled "More" seems out-of-place).

in extreme cases like Stefan's, perhaps something like "if it can't show at least two menus or XXX pixels, default to only show 'More'" but named something like "Menu" and having the whole app's menu in vertical/overflow layout...

Or adopt something like Firefox's approach and make the app name clickable and popup the menu (though that would be inconsistent with the default wide-enough behavior)

nachokb

Use a crevron character (like ») for the menu, it’ll take less space than the word “More”. Agree with nachokb of comment #25 when less than two menus can fit, use a “Menu” button.

What about considering to fadeout the menu on the right side and to allow to move over the menus by dragging or moving the mouse to the edges of the appmenu as another or fallback solution?

Hi, I copy here the bug I filled about this issue and was marked as duplicate as this bug, just to simplify's devs life:

[---------------
Hi team,

Early today I found that after installing extra plugins to GIMP -that added a couple of entries to the menu bar- the last two menu topics, Windows and Help, where overlapped by the indicators: you should seriously consider this because it's impossible to access the hidden menus without first quitting some indicators.
I mean, I love the indicators and it's Mac-like look, but there should be a way to hide some of them, either automatically or manually, just as happens on other systems like Win, KDE SC, etc.

Best,
Martin
----------------]

Cheers!

What about gnome-fallback(gnome-classic)?
I would expect same behavior from indicator-applet.

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.10.0-0ubuntu3

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    - when I closed QupZill brawser it crashed and then and then I sow
      worrning that compiz crashed but fire fox and chrome is estle working.
      gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGSEGV in max_window_name_width()
      (LP: #948580)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in std::basic_string<...>::basic_string()
      from unity::launcher::HudLauncherIcon::HudLauncherIcon()::{lambda} from
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      (LP: #839480)
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