[PATCH] Scrollable page dialogs

Sebastian Kuegler sebas at kde.org
Wed Dec 19 18:40:28 GMT 2007


On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:11:38 David Jarvie wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 15:51, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:55:37PM +0100, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> >> As I said, this patch impacts all KDE KPageDialog instances.
> >
> > I'd like to prevent such change which changes the behaviour of all
> > dialogs. Dialogs shouldn't have scrollbars anyway... what does the HIG
> > say?
>
> I agree that dialogs should not normally be designed to use scrollbars,
> but I can see a case for scrollbars appearing automatically in dialogs
> when the screen size is too small to accommodate them. I think that would
> be a very useful feature.

Yes, I guess those with an Eee PC will be happy with such a patch. The choice 
is not between scrollbars or no scrollbars, the choice is scrollbars or 
things like buttons off-screen.
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sebas

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