19209 - menus should truncate long entries.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Danny O'Brien]

this is in the milestone 11 build

menu pull-downs can get overly wide when faced with an extremely long URL.
TO RECREATE: Bookmark http://www.ntk.net/~danny/mozbug.html
which has an extremely long title.

worse, sub-menus can write to and over the right hand side of the screen, making
it impossible to descend down the sub-menu tree. It's not very likely that
a menu-bar would have a long entry - it could be truncated
 during the construction of the menu, for example. Butmany users will find
sub-menus butting against the right hand side (even with short menu entries) if
they have folders within folders in their bookmarks file.

TO RECREATE:
Create folders, and sub-folders in bookmarks until the sub-menu reaches the far
right of the screen.

SOLUTIONS:
Menu entries should be truncated with a "..."
the sub-menu widget should spring out to the left when it detects it cannot fit
within the remaining space on the left (this appears to be Windows' default
behaviour. WindowMaker widgets on Linux will scroll the entire menu-tree to the
right, which is pleasant in floating menus, but probably not desirable on menu
bar sub-menus)

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

assigning to saari as p3 for m14

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

updated component --Claudius, should this stay with you or go to me...?

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

taking over popup/menu bugs.

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 22910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 7370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[leger]

BULK MOVE: Changing component from XP Menus to XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus.  XP 
Menus component will be deleted.

Comment 7

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

bulk accepting xpmenu/popup bugs. sigh.

Comment 8

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 25430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Claudius Gayle]

*** Bug 22833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[David Hyatt]

Have a fix for this using XBL.

Comment 11

[David Hyatt]

Fixed.

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

the previous URL at www.ntk.net is currently broken, so i replaced it with
another one.

verified as fixed on winNT and linux w/opt comm bits 2000022808. still a problem
on mac --but will close out this one and open another for that problem.