Some menus extend inaccessibly below bottom of screen

[jidanni]

If we click the View menu, and it goes off the bottom of our screen, no big deal, as there is a little black "down arrow" there at the bottom we can use.

Not the case for some other menus.
Here we see that, well, whatever choices that extend below our screen are simply inacessible.

I'm just saying they need the little arrow too.

[rnorris]

Hmm, these menus are created/managed via GTK, so I don't know why these don't automatically have the up/down buttons if the menu doesn't fit on the screen (compared to the menus from the Menu Bar).
AFAIK Viking has no control over this.

[jidanni]

Were you able to reproduce the problem (by simulating, or really using, a smaller monitor?)

[rnorris]

I have tried reducing the screen size right down and I've not been able to reproduce it.
This is with Debian and Viking 1.10.
It always shows menu up/down arrows as necessary for all menus I can think of.

Note that in your example screen shot for the Trackwaypoint Layer -> Right Click Menu - the 'External' entry as shown is the last item in the menu, so I'm guessing that if only a few pixels of the menu is not shown - the GTK version does not add an extra down arrow - since that itself takes screen space.

[jidanni]

Try this:

• Grab the Viking window and move it partially off the screen. E.g., so you only see the upper left quarter of the Viking window.
• Now the File etc. menus still work nicely,
• but the other more internal menus are totally unaware that Viking is now not totally visible, and thus when expanded expand off the screen, unless they have only a few entries.

[jidanni]

Another. Can't get to the bitter end.