[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1742: WXGUI layer manager window doesn't show all menubar entries

[GRASS GIS]

#1742: WXGUI layer manager window doesn't show all menubar entries
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 Reporter:  marisn       |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  critical     |   Milestone:  7.0.0                    
Component:  wxGUI        |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
 Keywords:               |    Platform:  Linux                    
      Cpu:  Unspecified  |  
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Comment(by wenzeslaus):

 ''This is not going to be fixed soon, especially if it affects only some
 systems and some languages, so for now I just recap solutions.''

 == Possible solutions ==

 === Fix the system library ===

  * fix the system GUI library
  * we can say that the system library handles long menus in the wrong way
 (hides items withou notifying a user)
  * hidden items itself are in fact not problem of GRASS but of the system
 GUI library (maybe it is a problem of wxPython/wxWidgets but probably not)

 === Single window GUI ===

  * redesign the wxGUI to big single window which can have a long menu
  * this would  solve it, but we still want to have current multi window
 GUI and for this the problem would be still present

 === Bigger Layer Manager window ===

  * make Layer Manager window bigger
  * no point in this, width is needed for menubar (and toolbars) but
 usually not for the content itself

 === Abbreviations ===

  * use abbreviations in the menu (in English? in translations?
 optionally?)

 === Shorter menu ===

  * create a shorter menu (but what shall be omitted?)
  * create a shorter menu using toolboxes for yourself
   * possible now, see
 [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/wxGUI.toolboxes.html user manual
 page]
   * only workaround, each affected user must do it

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