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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	kaitanie@cc•helsinki.fi, newsletter@dirk•my1.cc,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add horizontal scrollbar to the diff view
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:51:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080308055157.GA8410@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18386.9974.50409.525039@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce writes:
> 
> > git-gui does this scrollbar on-demand thing in its revision list meta-widget,
> > which is lib/choose_rev.tcl.  The procedure in question is this, and it gets
> > installed as:
> 
> That's a nice idea, doing it in _sb_set.  However, since the text
> widget adjusts the horizontal scroll bar depending on what's visible,
> that would mean the scroll bar would appear and disappear as you
> scrolled vertically through the text, which would be disconcerting.
> So for a text I think it's better to have the scrollbar there
> permanently.

Yea.  For a list it looks a little funny too, but its better than
not having the scrollbar there at all and looking at a chopped name
that you can't tell apart from another chopped name.  Which was a
bug I suffered from in the early dark ages of git-gui at my day
job.  Imagine Aunt Tillies blindly merging branches because they
cannot see the full branch names.  :-)
 
> Also, I wonder if you could use pack forget instead of destroying the
> scrollbar?

Because I didn't even know about that option to pack.  I'll have to
look into switching the code to do that.  Thanks for the suggestion.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-08  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 22:51 [PATCH] gitk: Add horizontal scrollbar to the diff view Pekka Kaitaniemi
2008-03-06  6:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06 10:30   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-06 11:53     ` Pekka Kaitaniemi
2008-03-08  1:53     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-03-08  5:41       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-08  5:51         ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-08 12:27 Pekka Kaitaniemi

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