lcpz / awesome-freedesktop

Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM
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A menu is unusable when there are too many items in it #22

Open keryell opened 4 years ago

keryell commented 4 years ago

When a menu is to large to fit on the screen it is not possible to select items outside of what is shown on the screen. This happens typically on my laptop for the Settings menu. So either the menu should be scrollable or have several columns or...

lcpz commented 4 years ago

An Awesome menu is not inherently scrollable, but you can try wrapping it in a scroll container.

You could also set skip_items to avoid creating the settings menu.

Finally, this is a very simple module. Check Radical if you want something more sophisticated.

lcpz commented 3 years ago

Closing for inactivity.

keryell commented 3 years ago

No activity is not a good reason for closing this...

lcpz commented 3 years ago

On the same day you opened the issue, I gave you 3 options. Nonetheless, you did not reply in 6 months. Now that I close, you promptly comment, but still without adding anything to the discussion.

To solve the issue, I need your input. How big is your Settings section? Did you try what I suggested? How exactly would you fix it?

keryell commented 3 years ago

Thanks for reopening. I thought naïvely that someone would have implemented the first possibility in the middle term, make an Awesome menu inherently scrollable. I will look at scroll and Radical then...

selurvedu commented 5 months ago

@keryell hi, did you solve this?