Dear Dave-the-geek,
As the Oracle of all things GUI, and the Alpha Geek of Barre, could you
consider giving we mere mortals insight on the Dreaded Scrollbar Issue
(DSI)?
Thanks for your time and...
Kindest Regards,
Paul
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Anthony Carrico wrote:
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:48:07 -0400
From: Anthony Carrico <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: gtk scrollbars?
On 04/05/2016 07:38 PM, Anthony Carrico wrote:
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false
... in theory because while that setting does work for Firefox, it
apparently doesn't for Thunderbird, so it is tricky to scroll through
incoming messages.
FYI, apparently Thunderbird is gtk2, while Firefox is gtk3. The settings
file for gtk2 is ~/.gtkrc-2.0. Unfortunately,
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false
doesn't seem to work, but:
gtk-icon-theme-name = "Breeze"
gtk-theme-name = "Breeze"
will give Thunderbird a whole new (apparently KDE-like) theme that does
have working scrollbars. BTW, apparently this bug goes back (at least)
to 2013:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704277
Just 6 comments:
John Stowers 2013-09-10 08:18:06 UTC
What do you think of the new scrollbar behaviour in 3.10?
Comment 5 Glenn Holmer 2013-11-05 02:52:44 UTC
It's counter-intuitive and user-hostile. It should be reverted.
Comment 6 Andrew Smith 2013-12-25 21:56:09 UTC
I've opened bug 721047 to ask that the behaviour is reverted back to normal.
And bug 721047 is marked "Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX"
I guess I've spent my hour on this one, and I'm quitting with what I've
got. The strange thing is that I haven't seen anyone defend the
implemented behavior. It isn't mentioned in the design document:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Scrolling
No apparent way to edit that wiki to reference the relevant bug reports.
Oh well.
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Anthony Carrico
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