[Bug 39640] [2.0beta3] gaim: status pulldown menu is half empty (drawn offscreen)

[Eric Feliksik]

Public bug reported:

Affects: gaim (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
gaim 2.0beta3:
When changing status with the pulldown-menu gaim tries to position the dropdown menu in such a way that the current status comes under the mouse-pointer. If the window-bottom is low, half of the status menu will be drawn off-screen, and you first need to scroll.

Upstream bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid=100235&func=detail&aid=1414923
has been closed, because they give a workaround: take http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gtkrc-2.0 as your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 . This makes the pulldown menu become a list (? i'm not into gtk) and that's always drawn upwards. 

Can't gaim-upstream implement it in such a way that the list is always used for this functionality? The bottom of the gaim-window-list will very often be too low to display the dropdown menu, so the dropdown-menu seems inappropriate in it's current gtk-implementation. 
If it can only be solved in .gtkrc: should ubuntu ship the proposed .gtkrc-2.0 ? Don't know how that influences other apps. 

(I'm not willing to make a bugzilla account for each and every gnome
app, and Ubuntu decides what .gtkrc-2.0 it ships, so I report in
launchpad)
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[2.0beta3] gaim: status pulldown menu is half empty (drawn offscreen)
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39640