Bug#454067: scroll slider vs. small window

[Mike Hommey]

reassign 454067 libgtk2.0-0
thanks

Hi,

Sorry for the delayed answer.

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:26:56AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 2.0.0.10-2
> Severity: minor
> 
> Please do
> ALT h a
> to see the "About iceweasel" information.
> 
> I see visible:
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
> en-US; rv:1.8.1.10)
> Gecko/20071115
> 
> At right is the usual slider bar, indicating how much of the document
> is visible. Here it appears "full", making the user think that those
> three lines are all there is to the contents, so never mind scrolling.
> 
> But indeed, one can scroll to see more!
> 
> Therefore we see that for small windows, iceweasel's minimal slider
> bar size is already the maximum for that window, fooling the user into
> thinking that's all there is to the document, instead of the actual
> percent visible!
> 
> Please reword my bug and forward upstream if also valid there.

AFAICS, the scroller doesn't show up anymore in the about dialog, but
trying to look at a small scroller, it seems to me this is more a
general problem with the gtk scrollers... The minimal size for the
"positionning button" takes all the scroller space and it is hard to say
it's going to scroll.

I could reproduce with various gtk applications with small windows.

Mike