Bug 407973

Summary: Only automatically scroll log viewer to the bottom when it's already at the bottom
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: UpdatesAssignee: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: aleixpol
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 5.15.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nate Graham 2019-05-26 23:00:37 UTC 
When using an Arch-based distro and the update process displays a log viewer in the bottom of the window, its scrollview continuously scrolls to the bottom automatically. This makes it impossible to scroll up to view prior messages while the process is still underway, because the moment you scroll up it scrolls the view back to the bottom again. It's very annoying.

The scrollview should only automatically scroll to the bottom if it's *already* showing the bottom/latest line.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-09-23 18:21:39 UTC 
The log viewer is only shown for PackageKit-based updates on Arch-based distros, and the Arch folks don't recommend using PackageKit anyway. Discover itself even warns you! So probably UX improvements here are not worth doing, given that the core experience is unsupported and un-recommended.