Review Request: Add scrollbar support for the Web Slice plasmoid

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 14:45:41 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On August 29th, 2011, 7:34 a.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> what is the use case for this?
> 
> introducing configuration options that the user must then manage which
> control UI details like which widgets to show are something we try to
> avoid to preserve ease of use and elegance. if there is a real need for
> scrollbars in this widget, could they be turned on/off automatically
> instead? On August 29th, 2011, 6:12 p.m., Javier Llorente wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback, Aaron.
> Well, if there's some kind of searchbox on a webpage (ie: a dictionary) and
> you use it, the results of that query probably need a scrollbar. Perhaps
> the scrollbars could be added if the user hasn't entered an element to
> show (css) or if the whole webpage is too big to be displayed in the
> plasmoid. yes, i like the idea of automatic scrollbars. should hopefully
> be possible...

Thinking of it ... if we make the content draggable, we can get away with 
scrolling functionality, but without extra chrome (the scrollbars) and without 
additional options.

We could even tie this draggability to the locking state of the containment.

Thoughts on that?
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sebas

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