#6257 NORM Never A: Palette has a visible menu because of invisible items

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#6257: Palette has a visible menu because of invisible items
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 Reporter:  benzea  |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  sugar   |     Version:                
 Keywords:          |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:          |   Blockedby:                
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 For the networks it happens that most of the time the "Disconnect..." menu
 item is invisible, but the menu is still visible. This is because the code
 in the palette to show the menu just checks whether there are any items.

 There different ways to get past this problem:
  1. Never have any hidden content, but remove the items instead
  2. Make the palette smarter about showing the widgets

 I will attach a patch that implements the second approach. Note that there
 are some issues with this too. The problem is if items are added to the
 menu, and shown later on. The code in the patch will not handle that.

 I have modified the order of the add/show for the network palette because
 of this. Other solutions would be updating the visibilities in the palette
 from an high priority idle handler, or forcing the activity to call
 update_visibilities() on the palette.

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