UI: don't expand menus above menu bar

[nephele]

Hovering over a menu bar like [ File Edit Font Document ] (like in StyledEdit) Should only make the menu appear Under the items even if it overflows

Currently with the noto addidtion fonts installed it looks somewhat like this on my netboot when hovering over Font

           [ ^^^^^^^^^ ]
           [ noto font ]
[File Edit [ noto font ]t ]
           [ noto font ]
           [ noto font ]
           [ noto font ]

I think it should look like this

[ File Edit Font Document ]
           [ ^^^^^^^^^ ]
           [ noto font ]
           [ noto font ]
           [ noto font ]
           [ noto font ]

This won't solve that too many fonts are available obviously, but it would be one step to ensure menus dont hide their respective parent to not break hovering (If menus expand to above it should do that same too)

(and in the same vain, if one menu expands to above for size reasons all of them should for consistency, so one doesnt have to switch up and down with the eyes to scan menu items)

[bitigchi]

Isn't it the point of drop-down menus to show all available content "until the selection click"? Once you click or move to neighbour menubar entry it goes away anyway.

[nephele]

The name drop-down already implies it only goes down, anyway i see two problems with the current behaviour, the first one is simply information overload the entire height of my screen filled with options doesnt make picking one easier. And the second problem is that it breaks the "Once you click or move to neighbour menubar entry it goes away anyway. " Assertion, since it obscures the menubar i can't move to neighbours to the right of it which massively breaks the UX imo

[bitigchi]

Personally I find the whole screen approach easier, since it's much better than the limited size dropdown, it saves me a lot of scrolling, and I see everything at a glance.

I don't have many fonts installed, but I just moved the cursor to the side towards Edit menu and it worked.. Is this only present when the dropdown menu takes up the whole screen? Sounds like a bug.

[nephele]

The ticket is explicitly about a dropdown taking up the entire vertical space, at that point you probably have so many options you need to scroll anyway, sacrificing useability to show 3 more options seems like a bad deal to me (especially if i just want to reach the document menu)

I have the uhm noto-regional variants installed, they add a lot of country specific fonts, argueably they should not be show in the list, but for now they are a good example i think

[nephele]

Adding a bit of info from irc: The dropdown I ment in this ticket are only for menus, not for standalone 'comboboxes' where one clicks to get a list of items to select from-

[bitigchi]

After discussing this on IRC, this change makes sense. All menus should be available for scanning, and the menubar entries should be visible at all times.