D11843: Show the scrollbar only when needed

[Alex Nemeth]

anemeth added a comment.


  In theory it sounds good to not just hide the scrollbar area, but disable it when not needed.
  But in reality it would cause more issues.
  Imagine this: The line is filled with "lu lu lu" or with a progress bar (for example apt-get progress bar) but when the user adds enough lines to add a scrollbar, all that text just jumps around to get around the layout and this would be more much distracting than a seemingly empty narrow area at the end of the line. To counter this Konsole would have to resize itself when that happens, but I believe is not possible in Wayland and would not be practical either.
  That narrow empty scrollbar area is not as distracting as you think, maybe the first time the user encounters it, but then quickly discovers that a scrollbar just shows up there when necessary.
  Only maybe a in an ncurses app, but to counter it we could show the (useless) scrollbar there. I don't know if that's a better solution or not, I leave that to the VDG to answer.

REPOSITORY
  R319 Konsole

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D11843

To: anemeth, hindenburg, #konsole, #vdg
Cc: mglb, zzag, Pitel, ngraham, #konsole, herrold, hindenburg
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