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I have found that once I install enough modules my Windows menu gets too large to use. I will attach a screen shot from one system with a 1280x800 screen resolution. On this laptop the 800 is the largest vertical resolution it can have. Notice the menu is about as large as the screen, and not many more items will be able to be added to the window. On another system the menu is already too large and I can not see all of the items. I'm marking it as a DEFECT because it disallows access to functionality in the system. It seems like if we could make the menu do a couple things then it would not be an issue. 1) There need to be arrows on the top and bottom of the menu which allows the user to see that the window has more items than are visible. The arrow could be on a flat nice looking button which spans the entire menu length. The arrow icon itself would not stretch but would be a constant size and remain centered on this button. When the user is at the top of the menu the button on top is disabled, when the user is at the bottom (no more items remaining to scroll down) the bottom button is disabled and the top is enabled. 2) When the user gets to the bottom of the menu then the menu could auto-scroll to make it more productive. I don't think scrollbars would look very good here and would just take up more screen realty.
Created attachment 43165 [details] Image showing the menu from NB extending down into my operating system toolbar and almost too large for the screen.
Notice in my attached screen shot I have room for maybe 2 or 3 more items tops. I do not have mobility installed in this version yet, and I'm not sure if it will add more items, but then again, what if I want to install others custom modules. Basically something is going to be inaccessible at some point. The Tools menu is a good candidate for running out of space as well. Refactor and Source could stand to merged together also, and then Refactor/Source would be a good candidate.
This is old and famous JDK bug, see 28740. In 6.0 M9, we did some grouping of long menus into submenus to limit impact of this bug. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 28740 ***