Bug 702151

Summary:	network chooser doesn't scale when many network options
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jason Haar <jhaar>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	dcbw, extras-orphan, jklimes, maxamillion, notting, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Jason Haar 2011-05-04 22:02:28 UTC

Description of problem:

I just went to change what WLAN network I was connected to, and clicking on the wireless icon (top right corner) created a dropbox that covered the entire length of the screen. The wireless section showed 4 of the available ESSIDs, and a "More.." button for the rest. The one I wanted wasn't in there, so I clicked on the "More...". 

As the dropbox already covered the length of the screen, the GUI failed to show me any more wireless options! Clicking "More" expands *underneath* the rest of the dropbox (instead of pushing those settings down). 

This is a widescreen laptop, and has 1 "wired", 4+More "wireless", 2 "Mobile broadband", 4 "VPN" plus "Network Settings". 

It's too much for the screensize/font - it needs a scrollbar :-/ 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

NetworkManager-0.8.998-4.git20110427.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

always

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Expected results:

I think a scrollbar will be the only scalable option? I intended to have up to 50 VPN connectors in there (I'm not kidding!), so the current model doesn't work

Thanks!


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2011-05-16 11:46:26 UTC

This is actually deficiency of all (most) Gnome shell applets which you can add entries to.
If you add more entries to them, they will get too long and the bottom part gets hidden bellow screen bottom - no scrollbars, no access to bottom part (containing Settings option).

It's most easily reproducible with network applet because where can be many WiFi networks + VPN entries + mobile broadband. However, you can quite easily make bluetooth applet too long via adding handfull bluetooth devices to it.

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