Bug 171985

Summary:	Several sections in systemsettings have unneeded scrollbars
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Janne Ojaniemi <janne.ojaniemi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, finex, nate, thcourbon
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Size & Orientation problem Another pointless scrollbar - AudioCDs System Settings with a scrollbar Another example

Description Janne Ojaniemi 2008-10-01 21:26:36 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

There are several sections in Systemsettings that are sized wrong, resulting in unneeded scrollbars. I'm not talking about sections that have so much content that they have scrollbars (although those should be redesigned as well). I'm talking about sections that have scrollbars that disappear after making the window bigger by a tiny amount.

For example (all examples from OpenSUSE 11.0, running at 1024x768):

Systemsettings itself has a vertical scrollbar in the "General"-section that scrolls few dozen pixels

Apprearance>Icons has a horizontal scrollbar that scrolls just few pixels

Appearance>Windows has a vertical scrollbar that scrolls by just few pixels

Regional & Language>Keyboard Layout has both horizontal and vertical scrollbars that scroll for few dozen pixels

Regional & Language>Spellchecker has a vertical and horizontal scrollbar that scrolls few dozen pixels

Date & Time has a vertical scrollbar that scrolls just few pixels

Display>Size & Orientation has both vertical and horizontal scrollbars that scroll for a dozen or so pixels

Joystick has a vertical scrollbar that scrolls for few dozen or so pixels

Not about scrollbars, but still related: In Input Actions the "actions"-list needs to be manually resized, if the user wants to read what the actions listed there actually are

Nepomuk-section has a lot of wasted space, resulting in a vertical scrollbar that can be used to scroll the window even though there is nothing to show in the window, except empty content.

In addition to these, it seems that most sections in systemsettings seem to have a scrollbar. The ones I listed have more or less pointless scrollbars.

Comment 1 Roman S. 2008-10-12 13:15:52 UTC

Created attachment 27825 [details]
Size & Orientation problem

This is a screenshot of the Size&Orientation section - I can see the scrollbars even if I maximize the window (1680x1050 screen resolution!)

Comment 2 Roman S. 2008-10-12 13:20:57 UTC

Created attachment 27826 [details]
Another pointless scrollbar - AudioCDs

Another pointless scrollbar - AudioCDs (version 4.1.2, just like previous screenshot)

Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-11-14 01:18:52 UTC

About the first screenshot, it has already been reported on another bug report.

About the second, I've changed the product to the right one.

Comment 4 Janne Ojaniemi 2008-11-14 06:54:07 UTC

This bug is about a lot more things than just the Audio CD-component. Just about every component inside System Settings (including the main window) has unneeded scrollbars.

Comment 5 FiNeX 2008-11-14 10:06:34 UTC

I've tested ALL modules from trunk, the only one which shows unneeded scrollbar is the cd configuration dialog. Probably it has been fixed only in trunk and it has not been backported on 4.1.2.

Comment 6 FiNeX 2008-11-14 11:04:00 UTC

Sorry, even the audio cd-component is right. I've just checked the latest revision. Do you agree on closing this as fixed?

Comment 7 Janne Ojaniemi 2008-11-14 15:14:40 UTC

OK, that's good to hear :)

Comment 8 Janne Ojaniemi 2008-11-24 19:06:51 UTC

I'm running nightly snapshot as we speak, and I still see unneeded scrollbars. System settings itself has one, Window Behavior has one, regional & language has one... So it seems that this bug is NOT fixed in trunk.

Comment 9 FiNeX 2008-11-24 20:05:20 UTC

@Janne: Please, could you provide some screenshot? Thanks.

Comment 10 Janne Ojaniemi 2008-11-24 21:29:50 UTC

Created attachment 28802 [details]
System Settings with a scrollbar

Comment 11 Janne Ojaniemi 2008-11-24 21:37:40 UTC

Yes, you could say that "of course there is a scrollbar since the icons do not fit the window". But that's just it. Why is the default-size of the window such that it can't display all the content? Especially when we condsider the fact that the problem could e fixed by making the default-size of the window bigger by a few pixels.

Comment 12 Janne Ojaniemi 2008-11-24 21:44:16 UTC

Created attachment 28803 [details]
Another example

Comment 13 Ben Cooksley 2009-05-12 11:59:06 UTC

Only the following modules appear to be affected now:
Desktop Effects
Screen Saver
Country/Region & Layout
Mouse
Audio CDs
File Associations
Hardware
KDE Wallet
Powerdevil

Most of these problems appear to be down to their layouting, requiring widgets be far larger than they optimally should be. Alternately, they are trying to cram too much in.

I filed a seperate bug for the Country/Region KCM issue. ( #192420 )

Comment 14 Christoph Feck 2010-11-12 17:49:47 UTC

*** Bug 256722 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Nate Graham 2019-10-27 19:41:24 UTC

All of these cases have been fixed now, except for Powerdevil, which is being tracked separately.