https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168091
--- Comment #4 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > Context menu expand system-controlled and for good reason upwards in case of > insufficient space. Not always for good reason. See the examples at the link: There's quite a lot of space extending downwards, but because the menu is so long, the menu is rendered extending also upwards. This tradeoff is not at all compelling. In such cases, I would rather get downwards-extension and a scrolling widget at the bottom, rather than the awkward semi-upwards extend. > Neither is this inconvenient nor can and should we make > it configurable. It's inconvenient for three reasons at least: 1. It's surprising, in that it disagrees with the typical effect of (right/)clicking, where a menu opens to the side and down. 2. It moves the topmost menu items farther away from the mouse pointer, while menus, especially context menus, are typically designed to have those items closest. 3. It prevents you from applying "muscle memory" to make a selection on the menu. > What we need to do is keeping the menu size as small as > possible (or rather at the necessary minimum) - the HIG states this. > And actually I believe we do so. Of course it's nice if the menus are short enough so that this is not necessary. If your display is 1080 pixels high with 10pt or 11pt UI font, then yes, but that's not generally the case; but on smaller (though supported) displays, like my laptop's for example - this is not the case, and we don't plan on making it the case. There's also the situation where people increase the UI element size / font size due to weaker eyesight - also increasing the likelihood of encountering this situation. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
