| Summary: | Hard to tell when window preview list is scrollable, and hard to trigger scrolling | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | David <david.cortes.rivera> |
| Component: | Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager | Assignee: | Eike Hein <hein> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | bugseforuns, codestruct, iodreamify, nate, plasma-bugs, postix |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | junior-jobs |
| Version: | 5.13.2 | Flags: | hein:
Usability+
hein: VisualDesign+ |
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Debian unstable | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/2275a4771067a95cab17999db0ad1f90d392eae4 | Version Fixed In: | 5.22 |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
David
2018-07-12 14:23:29 UTC
It's scrollable. Changing this is possible but it's the VDG's call. Tricky issue. Maybe instead of making it scrollable, we could add another row/column? Pretty niche use case though. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > Tricky issue. Maybe instead of making it scrollable, we could add another > row/column? Pretty niche use case though. I wouldn't call it a niche use case. With a screen resolution of 1920x1080, which I guess it's today's most common setup, it takes barely 7 windows to fill the preview row. And for me at least, it doesn't scroll (tried rolling the mouse wheel and moving the mouse towards the end of the row). Currently, you can scroll with "Mouse left click plus Drag left/right". (In reply to Gregor Mi from comment #4) > Currently, you can scroll with "Mouse left click plus Drag left/right". Can confirm this works now. Although, I think it is a rather unintuitive form of scrolling. Click-and-drag works fine for touch where it becomes the familiar tap-and-drag gesture, but it sounds like we need the following changes here to improve the user experience: - Always show a visible scrollbar if there are more windows than fit in the screen at once (this is one of the primary purposes of visible scrollbars, in fact) - Allow the list to scroll horizontally when using the mouse wheel without having to add a modifier key. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Click-and-drag works fine for touch where it becomes the familiar > tap-and-drag gesture, but it sounds like we need the following changes here > to improve the user experience: > > - Always show a visible scrollbar if there are more windows than fit in the > screen at once (this is one of the primary purposes of visible scrollbars, > in fact) > > - Allow the list to scroll horizontally when using the mouse wheel without > having to add a modifier key. While this seems like a reasonable idea, IMHO, grouping into rows would look better and allow finding the right window faster. Yeah, that could also work. Seems like we have a few good options here. Git commit 2275a4771067a95cab17999db0ad1f90d392eae4 by Nate Graham. Committed on 07/04/2021 at 09:26. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [applets/taskmanager] Use a PlasmaComponents3 ScrollView for tooltip This gives us a functional scrollbar for free. FIXED-IN: 5.22 M +2 -5 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/ToolTipDelegate.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/2275a4771067a95cab17999db0ad1f90d392eae4 (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Click-and-drag works fine for touch where it becomes the familiar > tap-and-drag gesture, but it sounds like we need the following changes here > to improve the user experience: > > - Always show a visible scrollbar if there are more windows than fit in the > screen at once (this is one of the primary purposes of visible scrollbars, > in fact) > > - Allow the list to scroll horizontally when using the mouse wheel without > having to add a modifier key On Plasma 5.26.4 and qt 5.15.7 when the thumbnail list is full and the horizontal scrollbar is shown i can't scroll with the mouse wheel, even if the mouse is directly on the scrollbar. Previously i used to be able to scroll with drag and drop as described above but now it's no longer the case. The only way to scroll is to drag the scroll bar with the mouse. Is this a bug related to this or should i open a new bug report? Mouse wheel horizontal scrolling does work in other apps. Does it work if you hold down Shift or Alt while you roll the mouse wheel? (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11) > Does it work if you hold down Shift or Alt while you roll the mouse wheel? On Wayland nothing works. On X11 scrolling while holding down Alt while hovering over the thumbnails works. Can confirm that with a horizontal panel (a vertical panel works). That's a separate bug though; can you file a new one? (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #13) > Can confirm that with a horizontal panel (a vertical panel works). > > That's a separate bug though; can you file a new one? Done: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463054 |