D26530: ScrollView: Do not overlay scrollbars over contents

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  Yeah, I really dislike the fully-disappearing scrollbars too, for the same reason. I also like the GNOME approach when overlay-style scrollbars absolutely have to be used. That seems like a genuine innovation.
  
  However I've found myself surprised by the volume of comments I've received over the past year or two from users across all platforms (emails, blog comments, social media, bug reports) complaining about the thin scrollbars. There seems to be a lot of user irritation by our changes here.
  
  Personally I have to agree. I just don't see the problem with old-fashioned scrollbars with a visually separated track on the desktop. They clearly communicate your position in the scrollable view, their large click area makes them easy to grab, and they're not ugly if you render the track nicely.
  
  There's a #consistency <https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/goal_consistency/> angle too. We don't want scrollbars in Kirigami and other QML apps on the desktop to look different from the scrollbars in QWidgets-based apps.

REPOSITORY
  R858 Qt Quick Controls 2: Desktop Style

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D26530

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