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plugins drop-down menu

Aryeh Weiss
I have a problem when running under Suse Linux 11.4

I have lots of plugins installed, so the plugins drop-down menu is much
longer than my screen.
On my OSX system when I move the cursor to the bottom  the list scrolls so
that I can get at all of the plugins.
On my Suse 11.4 installation, that does not happen, so that I can only get
to those plugins that start with p-z  via the find command utility.

Any ideas as to why this is, and what I can do about it?

Additional info: I am using the Fiji distribution,  with the latest ij.jar
(1.46g) and 64 bit Java 1.6.0_24

--aryeh
School of Engineering
Bar Ilan University
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Re: plugins drop-down menu

Gabriel Landini
On Sunday 19 Feb 2012 20:08:09 Aryeh Weiss wrote:
> I have a problem when running under Suse Linux 11.4
> I have lots of plugins installed, so the plugins drop-down menu is much
> longer than my screen.

Yes, this is a known Java bug, I believe. It has been like this for as long as
I can remember and it is surprising that it has not been resolved (it is so
Oracle's Java as well as in OpenJDK).

Here are 3 workarounds  -- other than getting a larger screen :-)
to split the plugins into more than one folder,
to use ctrl+L to run the plugins via the command finder, or
to use the Control Panel (Plugins>Utilities>Control Panel) which is quite
handy.

Cheers

Gabriel
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Re: plugins drop-down menu

dscho
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Hi Aryeh,

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Aryeh Weiss wrote:

> I have a problem when running under Suse Linux 11.4
>
> I have lots of plugins installed, so the plugins drop-down menu is much
> longer than my screen.

This is one problem Fiji explicitly set out to fix. That is why we opened
up the menus outside of Plugins menu (we had to maintain this in the
ImageJA fork for quite some time until a less functional version of our
menu system was accepted upstream).

So the way to fix things is to change the plugins.config inside the .jar
files to put the plugins into more sensible places than the top-level
Plugins menu.

Ciao,
Dscho
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Re: plugins drop-down menu

Aryeh Weiss
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Johannes Schindelin <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Aryeh,
>
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Aryeh Weiss wrote:
>
> > I have a problem when running under Suse Linux 11.4
> >
> > I have lots of plugins installed, so the plugins drop-down menu is much
> > longer than my screen.
>
> This is one problem Fiji explicitly set out to fix. That is why we opened
> up the menus outside of Plugins menu (we had to maintain this in the
> ImageJA fork for quite some time until a less functional version of our
> menu system was accepted upstream).
>
> So the way to fix things is to change the plugins.config inside the .jar
> files to put the plugins into more sensible places than the top-level
> Plugins menu.
>
>

Thank you to Johannes and Gabriel for quick, informative  and useful
replies.
The easiest work around is the control panel.

Best regards,
--aryeh