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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kwrite-devel] Bug#38616: painful scrolling with long lines
From:       Christoph Cullmann <cullmann () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-02-24 9:29:22
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On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:06, jfirebaugh@kde.org wrote:
> Package: kwrite
> Version: 4.0 (using KDE 2.9.0 2 (3.0 beta2))
> Severity: normal
> Installed from:    compiled sources
> Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
> OS:                Linux (ppc) release 2.4.16-powerpc
> OS/Compiler notes:
>
> When a file contains a few long lines (lines that exceed the width of the
> window) mixed with mostly short lines, scolling via the scroll buttons or
> grabbing the scroll thumb is painful.
>
> The current behavior is to have a horizontal scroll bar only when a line
> that exceeds the view width is visible. The problem is that if such a line
> scrolls into view while you are pressing the scroll button, the appearance
> of a horizontal scroll bar will cause the bottom vertical scroll button to
> jump upward and out from underneath the cursor, causing the scroll to stop.
> Similar unexpected behavior occurs when a long line scrolls out of the view
> and when scrolling by holding down the scroll thumb and drag ging. Behavior
> of the latter is especially annoying -- when a long line is at the border
> of the view, dragging the scroll thumb one direction causes the view to
> jump up and down several times before continuing to scroll correctly.
>
> Suggested behaviors: (a) always have a horizontal scrollbar, or (b) always
> have a space for one, but enable it only when a long line is visible, or
> (c) as a file is read (possibly incrementally, on demand) remember  what
> the longest known line is, and have the horizontal scroll bar reflect the
> length of that line.
b) is allready done since some days.

>
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