Fitt's law and scrollbar

[Gustavo Carneiro]

There is a harmful spacing between the rightmost scrollbar, in the package list, and the edge of the screen, even when maximized. This goes against Fitt's law.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

This is probably a gtk bug, see #25529 and #40966 for further examples

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

Oh, actually It doesn't seem it is the exact same problem, I think this is something to with synaptic rather. Sorry for the confusion.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Removing the extra space would be against Fitts' Law, since it would also remove the space between the buttons in the lower left cornor and the statusbar/window border.

A possible solution, that can also be found in evolution, is to add an extra space around the buttons and violate the alignment.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

It's been a long time since this bug was reported. Is it still an issue in Lucid?

[Alex Willmer (alex-moreati)]

Yes it's still an issue, though as a wishlist one could argue whether it should be attached to a released distro rather than $next_release. The basic request is to remove the border spacing around the panes, so it's closer to Nautilus's layout. Screenshot attached, the buttons as mentioned aren't ideal.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

If I understand correctly, I don't think I have that spacing in Lucid's default theme (ambiance).
Which theme are you using?

[Alex Willmer (alex-moreati)]

You do have that spacing, It's the space between the edges of the panes the toolbar, the status bar and the left/right window decorations. I've marked it with red dimension arrows. I'm using Maverick/Ambience but the same border was apparent in Lucid. The theme doesnt affect this, the border is defined in $synaptic_repo/gtk/glade/window_main.glade

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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