GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 560923
Remove preferences for scrollbar placement and/or disabling
Last modified: 2012-05-03 19:07:22 UTC
Is it just me, or is it complete usability madness to allow moving the scrollbar to the left side of the window? Also, allowing to disable it altogether seems equally non-standard. What is the rationale for this behaviour? My suggestion is to put the scrollbar on the right side, and removing all such preferences. And it should only be visible when needed, as in most other text fields in most other applications. Other information:
I'm guessing it exists because xterm offers an option to put the scrollbar left or right. I agree the placement option should be removed; there's a global style setting of GtkScrolledWindow that says whether the vert scrollbar is left or right, which should be used instead. (This needs USE_SCROLLED_WINDOW defined in terminal-screen-container.c; before this can be enabled the geometry bugs this exposes need to be fixed.) IMO an option to always/never show the scrollbar should be preserved, however.
Oh, I've already searched for this feature, but I can't find it. Where is it? Because all my other GTK apps (even firefox) honour the gtk-scrolled-window-placement = top-right setting in my .gtkrc-2.0 file, just openoffice, gimp and dia don't. I want them to look the same way other apps do. >What is the rationale for this behaviour? Because some people like it that way and think it is easier to reach and therefore more user friendly.
Damn. Actually this was the wrong place to post it. I want this feature for dia. Sorry!
Fixed on master.