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Bug 471617 - Epiphany scrollbar violates Fitts' law when tabs are in use
Epiphany scrollbar violates Fitts' law when tabs are in use
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112291
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Tabs
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-29 23:49 UTC by Nathaniel Smith
Modified: 2007-08-30 21:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18



Description Nathaniel Smith 2007-08-29 23:49:29 UTC
Do not add a single-pixel frame around the content pane when tabs are in use.

Other information:
I commonly run Epiphany maximized or fullscreen.  In either of these modes (with metacity as window manager), the scrollbar is at the right edge of the screen, and this is very convenient for Fitts' law reasons -- it's very easy to grab the scroll bar thumb by slamming the mouse into the side of the screen.

However, this only works when the Epiphany window contains only a single tab (i.e. no tabs are shown at the top, the content fills the whole pane below the toolbar).  When multiple tabs are displayed, then a thin border is added around the content pane, which doesn't really improve anything visually (if it were really critical aesthetically, presumably it would exist when no tabs were open as well), but does mean that the scroll bar thumb is no longer at the edge of the screen, and thus requires far more precise positioning to acquire with the mouse.  This is very frustrating.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-08-30 21:51:35 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112291 ***