[GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

[David Carlson]

If you are using release 18.04 the default desktop was switched from Unity
to Gnome and that Gnome probably uses GTK3 as default rather than GTK2.  I
think those scroll bars first appeared there but they seem to be becoming
as fashionable as useless 'antique' bathroom sinks.

David Carlson

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:47 PM Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I fear that the main thread of this issue has been lost due to the
> irrelevant side issue raised about Windows.
>
> Below is the latest real message in this thread (in response to Colin Law):
>
> I was surprised to see 3.900 myself but that's what the About screen
> tells me:
>
> Version: 3.900
> Build ID: git 3.1-100-geb67baba5+ (2018-06-03)
> Finance::Quote: 1.47
>
> I am running the standard gnome version of Ubuntu with the exception of
> a change I made to get a wider scrollbar per:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/775201/how-do-i-get-a-bigger-static-scrollbar-aka-normal-scrollbar
>
> I think I the only change I made was changing
>       -GtkRange-slider-width: 16;
> to
>       -GtkRange-slider-width: 25;
>
>
> However, this problem has been with me since gnucash v 2.x.x and on a
> previous version of Ubuntu where I hadn't messed with the scroll bar width.
>
> As for "X or Wayland" I don't know.  I am using whatever Ubuntu 18.04
> ships with out of the box.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/5/19 11:29 AM, Steve Cohen wrote:
> > I was surprised to see 3.900 myself but that's what the About screen
> > tells me:
> >
> > Version: 3.900
> > Build ID: git 3.1-100-geb67baba5+ (2018-06-03)
> > Finance::Quote: 1.47
> >
> > I am running the standard gnome version of Ubuntu with the exception of
> > a change I made to get a wider scrollbar per:
> >
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/775201/how-do-i-get-a-bigger-static-scrollbar-aka-normal-scrollbar
> > .  I think I the only change I made was changing
> >      -GtkRange-slider-width: 16;
> > to
> >      -GtkRange-slider-width: 25;
> >
> >
> > However, this problem has been with me since gnucash v 2.x.x and on a
> > previous version of Ubuntu where I hadn't messed with the scroll bar
> width.
> >
> > As for "X or Wayland" I don't know.  I am using whatever ubuntu ships
> > with out of the box.
> >
> >
> > On 2/5/19 11:07 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> >> I am not seeing any problems on Ubuntu 18.10 running GC 3.4.  Confused
> >> by the fact you say you are running 3.900 as I think 3.4 is the latest.
> >>
> >> Are you running the standard (Gnome) version of Ubuntu?  Are you using
> >> X or Wayland? That should be selectable from logon screen.  I am
> >> running X.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 16:55, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     For two years something seemed not quite right about the use of
> >> scroll
> >>     bars in Gnucash register windows, but I always just "lived with it"
> >>     in a
> >>     state of vague , not quite conscious annoyance.
> >>
> >>     I have finally put my finger on the problem.
> >>
> >>     When I click in the scroller and move my mouse, whenever the mouse
> >>     leaves the scroll bar area the display snaps back to where it was
> >>     before
> >>     the scroll operation.  I initially tried to carefully keep the mouse
> >>     within the scroll bar area, and that does prevent the display from
> >>     snapping back - but my new ephiphany is this:  If I do manage not to
> >>     stray from the bounds of the scroll bar before releasing the mouse
> >>     button, then the display stays where my scrolling action left it
> BUT,
> >>     the moment I subsequently move the mouse out of the scroll bar area,
> >>     the
> >>     display snaps to its previous position.  In particular this makes it
> >>     impossible to edit an entry that was out of the visible scrolling
> >> area
> >>     but became visible after scrolling, as it is gone before I can click
> >>     it.
> >>        The only way to get to a row not visible is by using the arrow
> >>     keys or
> >>     PgUp, PgDown.  Ironically, pressing those keys does move the
> >> scroller.
> >>
> >>     I am running GNUCash version 3.900, which I built from source on
> >>     2018-06-03 on Ubuntu 18.04.
> >>
> >>     This is highly irritating and non-standard behavior, I think.  Other
> >>     apps do not handle scrolling this way, such as the Thunderbird Mail
> >>     inbox, Libre Office Calc, etc.  I was not able to find a setting
> that
> >>     would govern this behavior.  Do others experience this, or is it a
> >> bug?
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