From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add horizontal scrollbar to the diff view Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:18:14 -0800 Message-ID: <7vy78wgyu1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080305225123.GA8485@localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: paulus@samba.org, newsletter@dirk.my1.cc, git@vger.kernel.org To: kaitanie@cc.helsinki.fi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 06 07:19:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JX9RZ-0008UF-75 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:19:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755433AbYCFGS1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:18:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755063AbYCFGS1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:18:27 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:36701 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750948AbYCFGS0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:18:26 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95334348C; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:18:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9694348B; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:18:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20080305225123.GA8485@localdomain> (Pekka Kaitaniemi's message of "Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:51:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pekka Kaitaniemi writes: > Adding horizontal scroll bar makes the scrolling feature more > discoverable to the users. > > Signed-off-by: Pekka Kaitaniemi > --- > Here is a patch that adds horizontal scroll bar to the gitk diff > pane. It makes the scrolling feature a bit more discoverable and > accessible. The only downside is that it uses some screen real estate. An obvious solution is to show the scrollbar on-demand (i.e. when the lines are overlong), but I do not talk Tcl/Tk and do not know if you can do that easily.