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

Steve Cohen stevecoh2 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 16:11:36 EST 2019


On 2/5/19 2:37 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Ok, I was traveling last week and it seems like motels are switching to 
> bathroom sinks that sit on top of the counter, with plumbing that looks 
> like the old fashioned hand water pump and bowl arrangement, thus are 
> automatically 8 " higher and further back, leaving no room for 
> toothbrush charger, hand towel (no towel hanger either) soap dish etc.
> 
> Scrollbars are not actually completely useless but close in this new 
> form.  Sometimes it is hard to make them appear and if you click 
> somewhere above or below the slider the window slides up proportional to 
> where you clicked instead of one page.  Thus there is no longer a 'page 
> up' 'page down' function with the mouse button.  That gets very annoying 
> when reading a long document.
> 
> David Carlson
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:17 PM Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/5/19 2:04 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>      > 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.
>      >
> 
>     While I appreciate and think I agree with the thrust of your comment,
>     I'm not actually understanding what you mean.  Are you saying that GTK3
>     renders scrollbars useless?  And why does GnuCash seem to be unique in
>     how it handles this (at least among the applications I use)?
> 

Gotcha.  Seems like another instance of "if it isn't needed on the 
smartphone, we can forget about it on the desktop."  Scroll bars, so 
five minutes ago.





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