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Bug 696046 - Scrollbar unusable for long lists
Scrollbar unusable for long lists
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 692037
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: .General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-18 10:04 UTC by Vít Ondruch
Modified: 2013-03-26 18:29 UTC
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Description Vít Ondruch 2013-03-18 10:04:30 UTC 
The scrollbar is completely unusable for long lists, such as list of emails in Thunderbird. This is due to inability to "page down by click" or scroll by click on arrow.

There is often no other option than use touchpad (yes, I am using my laptop sometimes without mouse) and even then, the touchpad scrolling is not very precise.

Using PgUp pgDown on keyboard is also not option, since you cannot scroll half of page. Using cursor change focus, so that is no option.

Could you please consider to return the "click to scrollbar" to page up/down or the clickable arrows. Something as Ubuntu is using would make the job.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2013-03-18 10:39:00 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Could you please consider to return the "click to scrollbar" to page up/down

Right click. In any case, the window manager doesn't have anything to do with scrollbars in applications, reassigning to GTK+.
Comment 2 Vít Ondruch 2013-03-18 10:45:18 UTC 
Right click does not work. May be it is GTK+ 2 issue.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2013-03-20 01:13:07 UTC 
works fine in gtk-demo, in my testing
Comment 4 Vít Ondruch 2013-03-20 08:15:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> works fine in gtk-demo, in my testing

Right click does exactly nothing for Firefox and Thunderbird, while it works for gnome-terminal. So it is probably Gtk2, as I mentioned in comment #2.

Anyway, they are not distinguishable on the first look, so it should be somehow solved IMO.
Comment 5 Vít Ondruch 2013-03-20 08:41:39 UTC 
BTW I'm using Fedora 18, if that is relevant, since the theme might be different on different systems I suppose.
Comment 6 William Jon McCann 2013-03-26 18:29:54 UTC 
Relying on paging because manipulating the handle is unusable isn't a very good solution in my opinion. I think we need to do some work to ensure scrolling the normal way isn't broken. I think this is probably a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 692037 ***