Bug 231475 - Kate should have an option to toggle vertical and/or horizontal scrollbar visibility.
Summary: Kate should have an option to toggle vertical and/or horizontal scrollbar vis...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Keywords:
: 311243 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-03-20 23:04 UTC by Daniel Douglas
Modified: 2015-02-25 19:47 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 4.13


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Description Daniel Douglas 2010-03-20 23:04:21 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          gcc-4.4.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

An option to hide the horizontal and/or vertical scroll bars in the interest of screen real-estate  efficiency would be useful. This is especially true in the case of vi mode, as the interface becomes largely keyboard driven, and also when the statusbar is enabled showing the current cursor position, which makes using the scrollbars for that information redundant.

Having such an option in Kate's profiles would also be consistent with the design of Konsole, which allows toggling scrollbar visibility I would assume for similar reasons (one might use screen or tmux which have keyboard driven scrollback buffers).

According to the docs: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdesdk/kate/kate-part.html#kate-part-overview

"The scroll bars are displayed and hidden as required."

As far as I can tell this isn't strictly the case unless this note is only referring to Kate's current behavior of always showing scrollbars except when dynamic word-wrap is enabled. Bugs 191287 and 173255 mention these inconsistencies, so I am filing this as a wishlist item instead.

Users/developers looking to optimize screen use with efficient interfaces such as tiling WMs, or who use devices with small displays would appreciate options like this particularly in KDE applications geared towards productivity such as Kate.
Comment 1 Francois 2010-03-22 14:40:08 UTC
You You said everything !
This feature will be a must indeed with vi mode
Comment 2 Ragnar Thomsen 2012-12-05 21:10:45 UTC
I vote for an option to hide the scrollbars in kwrite/kate.
Comment 3 Dominik Haumann 2012-12-06 10:07:44 UTC
*** Bug 311243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Dominik Haumann 2012-12-06 10:08:47 UTC
Ideally, next to an option, it should show / hide the scroll bars automatically.
Comment 5 Michal Humpula 2015-02-25 19:47:13 UTC
As far as I can tell this issue was fixed long time ago, so closing:)