Bug 678188

Summary:	No way to scroll down if you add a lot of items to favourites list.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Le Sage <dlesage>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description David Le Sage 2011-02-17 03:47:56 UTC

Description of problem:
If the user adds a large/excessive number of applications to the Favourites bar, there is no way to scroll down the list of them.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Desktop (Live CD)

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go into the Applications area of the GNOME-Shell.
2. Right-click on a large number of applications, adding them to the favourites bar.

  
Actual results:
Some of them will be inaccessible as they go down "off the screen."  You cannot scroll down to them or use the down arrow cursor key to reach them.

Expected results:
A scroll bar or some other way of accessing them.  This will be an issue on low resolution monitors and for people who like to have large numbers of short-cuts/use a lot of apps frequently.

Additional info:

Comment 1 David Le Sage 2011-02-22 23:17:25 UTC

Further information:


In the situation above, I was using GNOME Shell in a dual head configuration.  The Favourites bar was on the primary (laptop) monitor.


Yesterday, I ran the live CD again on the laptop which was now uncoupled from the dual-head system.  The icons now resized as I added more and more to the Favourites bar and, thus, I no longer had the problem of them spilling off the bottom of the screen.

I do not know why I had the problem with one configuration but not the other.  Perhaps it is a bug with the dual-monitor configuration.


The only concern with them shrinking to fit is that the names of the applications become truncated.  As a usability suggestion, perhaps the full name should appear or they should magnify as you hover the mouse over them, etc.

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2011-02-22 23:39:46 UTC

2.91.90 removes the names from the dash items so there's a lot more space to fit more - you won't overflow until you get a completely ridiculous number.