D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

ngraham updated this revision to Diff 52921. ngraham added a comment. Make it configurable and don't change the default behavior REPOSITORY R31 Breeze CHANGES SINCE LAST UPDATE https://phabricator.kde.org/D19444?vs=52903=52921 BRANCH scrollable-humongous-menus (branched from master)

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

guidosanchez added a comment. Maybe making it configurable would make most users happy :) Another unexpected behavior in this issue is that if you are using the Global Menu widget, the emerging menu (that supposedly doesn't fit the screen) shouldn't cover the panel that has the Global

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

cfeck added a comment. What he complains about is that items are unreachable. Yes, it should scroll. Either horizontally or vertically. A scrollbar would be perfect so you see how much you don't see. In addition to multiple columns, if there are 1½ or more. REPOSITORY R31 Breeze REVISION

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

ndavis added a comment. Horizontal menus are fast, but unusable or hard to read if they get too large. Scrollable menus with the arrows that you hover over are annoyingly slow if you don't use a scroll wheel to scroll, but don't block the entire screen if you have a large number of items.

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

ngraham added a comment. In D19444#422559 , @cfeck wrote: > The problem is that adding this property limits to a single column. Yeah, that's the point. :) In D19444#422559 , @cfeck wrote:

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

cfeck added a comment. The problem is that adding this property limits to a single column. It should show all columns, and additionally allow the user to scroll. For a menu that only has a few more items than fit in a column this is acceptable, but for the menu in the referenced ticket it

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

ngraham added a comment. In D19444#422556 , @davidedmundson wrote: > FWIW, there is a way to do it on a per-menu basis using a combination of > > QWidget::setStyle and QProxyStyle Not sure that would really help in this specific case

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

davidedmundson added a comment. FWIW, there is a way to do it on a per-menu basis using a combination of QWidget::setStyle and QProxyStyle REPOSITORY R31 Breeze REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D19444 To: ngraham, #breeze, broulik Cc: davidedmundson, mvourlakos, cfeck,

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

mvourlakos added a comment. This issue has an origin from : https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu/issues/45 menus dont respect the available screen size REPOSITORY R31 Breeze REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D19444 To: ngraham, #breeze, broulik Cc:

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

cfeck added a comment. Please not. I use wide menus extensively, e.g. for bookmarks, and are not keen to wait eons to find an item because of the slow scrolling. REPOSITORY R31 Breeze REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D19444 To: ngraham, #breeze, broulik Cc: cfeck,

D19444: Make long menus scrollable instead of expanding horizontally

ngraham created this revision. ngraham added reviewers: Breeze, broulik. Herald added a project: Plasma. Herald added a subscriber: plasma-devel. ngraham requested review of this revision. REVISION SUMMARY BUG: 404942 FIXED-IN: 5.15.03 TEST PLAN In a VM, make the screen size tiny, Open