https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66153

--- Comment #3 from Stefan Knorr (astron) <[email protected]> ---
Ha. This is a fun problem, because on the other hand, most OS's are working on
removing or shrinking scrollbars, so people have to use touchscreens/touchpads/
mouse scroll wheels.

* Ubuntu generally uses overlay scrollbars that are two pixels wide
(LibreOffice
  luckily doesn't support this)

* Mac OS uses disappearing scrollbars (I don't think we support this either,
but
  I am not a Mac user)

* Gnome uses the scrollbars you can see in the screenshot (Hey, LibreOffice
  supports them!)

* Windows 8 "Metro" mode uses huge, but disappearing scrollbars (LibreOffice
  doesn't support the "Metro" mode)

* Windows 8 Desktop mode uses normal scrollbars (Phew ... but at the same time,
  Microsoft would rather do away with it)

* Elementary OS (customised Ubuntu) uses extremely small scrollbars (we support
  them, and it is terrible … we can be glad they don't have a large
marketshare)

So, in summary, I think the only solution here is to move the tabs out of the
scrollbar.

Some options:

1. Draw them in the status bar, although that is probably undesirable, because:
  * It renders Calc unusable to anyone who tries to remove the status bar – so
    we'd need a backup placement
  * Supposedly, the status bar has the word "status" in it for a reason
  * As you can see from the screenshot, it would become a question where to put
  bottom-docked toolbars
  * Rather small space available

2. Give them a full line of screen space, below the scrollbar
  * may waste some space, but everyone who is using lots of sheets would
    probably be pretty happy
  * would allow to draw native tabs (which would make me personally rather
    happy) – although the sheet colours may stand in the way of getting native
    tabs

3. Steal some space from the formula bar
  * Would allow drawing native tabs (if the tab colouring thing worked with
    native tabs)
  * Would make the space pretty crammed
  * There would need to be an alternate solution for people who hide the
formula
    bar (although that is probably rare)

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