Deskbar menu screen edge margin

[kallisti5]

The deskbar menus can sit right up against the bottom of the screen. This leaves the user wondering if more menu items may be not visible.

There should be a margin between the deskbar menu and the screen edges. (even if it results in the need for a scrolling menu.)

[kallisti5]

example

[kallisti5]

TExpandoMenuBar::CheckForSizeOverrun

[axeld]

But this doesn't really sound like a Deskbar specific issue, more like a general BMenu problem.

[anirudh]

How about starting the menu dropdown a little bit higher? Raising the sub menu higher and making it start from the side of Recent Documents would give up space at the bottom and distinguish Deskbar and the Menu bar. Is this a good practice?

[pulkomandy]

On my machine, the menu doesn't even fit on screen. We do have scrolling in this case, but I can't remember if there is any visual indication. Possibly there should be a small arrow symbol at the bottom of the menu?

[humdinger]

I do see those widgets with all menus exceeding the screen height. I uploaded a screenshot of my long deskbar app menu. It works fine here. Maybe it's an issue with the status bar of VirtualBox we see in the OP's screenshot?

[humdinger]

working menu widgets

[pulkomandy]

In the screenshot, the widgets are not needed: the menu does fit the screen just fine. It just happens to be flush to the bottom of the screen.

The idea of the ticket (I think) is just to move the menu up by a few pixels, so it is clear it ends there.

[humdinger]

oops. misread the ticket then, sorry.

[kallisti5]

Correct. Add some margin to the edge of the screen. (in all cases, scroll widget or none?) When the menu perfectly touches the edge, the user is really unsure if all content is displayed.