GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 749323
blank column on right panel (not an bug report but a suggestion)
Last modified: 2017-12-13 19:12:23 UTC
Created attachment 303315 [details] screen snapshot. This is a suggestion (not a bug report). Please refer to the attached screenshot. Sometimes when I am working on the right panel, my cursor is already at the very left of panel, but I am still trying to move it leftwards because of a blank column. For instance, the "//"s on the right panel seems to locate at column 2 but they are actually at column 1. So my suggestion is: enlarge the light gray area between the left and right panels 1 more column to the right, and move the left and right arrows to the gray area. Thank you.
At least old version 1.4 did what I suggested.
Actually, by current design there should be no grey area at all; the area between the panes should be exactly the same colour as the panes themselves, so that's something slightly unusual going on with your theme... not a big deal though. However, I agree that it can look a bit weird to not have a reasonable visual indicator of where the document starts. I've gone to a fair bit of effort to make the merge indicators flow seamlessly across panes, and I haven't figured out a good way to both do that and still have an indication of document borders. Technically speaking, this would involve overriding background colour drawing for all GtkSourceView gutter renderers, including ones we don't actually draw ourselves, which might be quite tricky.
I agree with john that visual indications showing where the edges of the text areas for source code are desirable. But, I'm not sure if it's worth spending a lot of time trying to override the behavior of an external library. It doesn't bother me enough that it's going to get to the top of my personal todo list in the forseable future, so I've really got no right to complain. :)
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