This is not light-themes fault, I've seen this behavior since my first days with Ubuntu (9.04 then) so this is really an ancient bug since GTK+2. You can also see this behavior with other menus placed at bottom of screen, such as the theme selector combobox in Appearance panel of Control Center.
** Project changed: light-themes => gtk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965953 Title: indicator applet with scroll arrows Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit: New Status in Indicator Applet: Confirmed Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The indicator applet, installed by default in classic session of Precise, appears with just some up and down scroll arrows, and I have to scroll down before it fills in and shows the 3 items, and then the scroll arrows disappear. Is it possible to fix this annoying behaviour? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-panel 1:3.4.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Mar 27 08:39:06 2012 SourcePackage: gnome-panel UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/965953/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
