Bug 170838

Summary: Don't let the bottom package description expand out of view
Product: [Unmaintained] adept Reporter: Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Rockai <me>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: Patch to fix scrolling issues

Description Jonathan Thomas 2008-09-11 03:15:36 UTC 
Version:           3.0 Beta 2 (Battleship) (using 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1.1), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.26-5-generic

A somewhat lazy copy/paste from https://launchpad.net/bugs/52461 But for what it's worth I though the description described this wishlist ok.

"Automatically scroll down so the last item and its description are visible. Save users the trivial distraction of having to scroll up and then back down by an item in the package table, That way the newly expanded description will be visible straight away, improving usability.

This also applies to other items further up the view. The larger descriptions thus stay in the view area when items get expanded (where the description is smaller than the view area available)."
Comment 1 Jonathan Thomas 2008-10-14 17:07:04 UTC 
Created attachment 27879 [details]
Patch to fix scrolling issues

Heh, turns out that Qt already has this feature built in. <3
Setting autoscroll to true gives us this feature for free.

This patch also sets the vertical scroll mode to be by-pixel instead of by item. This makes large list items not disappear when you scroll down.
Comment 2 Jonathan Thomas 2008-10-14 19:51:39 UTC 
The patch has been committed to the darcs repo, so closing this as fixed.