On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:23 +0000, Stephen Kennedy wrote: > Hi all, if anybody has been using the svn version, you'll have noticed > that the margin drawing has moved into the scrollbar trough. I don't > think the change has been entirely successful and plan to revert it. > Pros and cons: > + All textviews now get a diff map (previously the middle pane > wouldn't have one) > + The textviews get a little wider > - Scrollbar gets very busy looking - with many changes the scroll > handle is obscured > > Another option is to remove the scrollbars from the textviews entirely > and have one master scrollbar for all panes with a combined diffmap > beside the scrollbar. > + Middle pane gets a diffmap > + Saves some horizontal space > + No scrollbars mean prettier drawing for 3 way merges > + Does anybody use the other (non right hand side) scrollbars anyway? > I only use them when a large block has been deleted and want to look > at the contents. > > I did some experiments with this option but didn't get very far as I > couldn't find the magic to turn off the vertical scrollbar and hook it > up to an external scrollbar. Any links to gtk scrolling docs welcome. > > Comments? > Stephen.
/+1 for a single scrollbar. ... Tough, what happens when you compare a 200 line file to a single line file? (With only the last line matching) - Gilboa _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
