[Edgy] Bad vertical scroll-bar's look in Firefox 2.0b2

[Alessandro Colaci]

Binary package hint: firefox

A minor graphical issue.

When I scroll pages with mouse scroller or up/down keys, the left grey edge of the vertical scroll-bar remains on the initial position while the bar is moving up or down. Same problem when I click and drag the bar, but when the left mouse button is released the edge tracks the rest of the bar.

[Jeff Greene (jeffgreene)]

What version are you using? There doesn't seem to be a problem for me in Edgy with the latest version.

[Jeff Greene (jeffgreene)]

Sorry, I forgot about the title. My bad.

[Jeff Greene (jeffgreene)]

Can you provide a screenshot?

[Alessandro Colaci (alessandro-colaci-deactivatedaccount)]

Other infos. I use KDE and it seems the issue is related to Lipstik
style theme, if I use for example Polyester theme I don't have the
issue. So it's a very minor problem.

[Alessandro Colaci (alessandro-colaci-deactivatedaccount)]

Also Plastik is affected. So Plastik and Lipstik. I set KDE to "use my
KDE style in GTK apps". The other themes aren't affected.

[Alessandro Colaci (alessandro-colaci-deactivatedaccount)]

Jeff Greene wrote:
> Can you provide a screenshot?
>
Sorry, I can't provide you a screen-shot, because as I click something
in the Firefox window or anywhere, or as I type a key, the gray left
edge of the scrollbar tracks the scrollbar, going in its right place...

[yaztromo (tromo)]

Problem is still present in Fiesty. I am using plastik theme, but it also occurs with other themes. Installing the firefox scrollbar fix in the control centre does not help.

It's actually impossible to provide a screenshot since pressing print screen causes the scrollbar to redraw correctly. You can see this bug for yourself by opening a page long enough to make the bar appear and rolling down on your mouse wheel.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Maybe this is related to Qt gtk+ engine? Anyone can test if that is the case please?

[Adam Spain (adamspain)]

I'm seeing this bug with the Plastik style. Managed to get a screenshot using a time delay in KSnapshot, which is attached.

[Adam Spain (adamspain)]

I think this is a bug in the GTK-QT engine. This bug in SUSU Linux reports the same problem and has a patch:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=143263

I don't know if their patch could be adapted for use in the current code. Also I think their patch causes the slider to be about 2 pixels too narrow when compared to the slider arrow buttons, which is kind of fixing one bug and creating another. I'll change this bug to be against the gtk-qt-engine package (if I can).

[Adam Spain (adamspain)]

Changed bug to be against gtk-qt-engine instead of firefox, and assigned to nobody instead of mozilla-bugs since the bug isn't in firefox code.

[Oleg Sevostyanov (boothehamster)]

I use Kubuntu 7.10, FF 2.0.0.9 and Domino Style. Scrollbars in Firefox and Thunderbird looks broken (see a screenshots). The fix in "System Settings" does't work.

[wickstopher (wicksmail23-mailings)]

Here's another for Kubuntu 7.10 (actually using Linux Mint Daryna KDE CE, but it's based on Kubuntu). The supposed "fix" doesn't work, and the problem persists regardless of the theme used.

[klerfayt (klerfayt-deactivatedaccount)]

how to fix ALMOST domino style scrollbars in firefox on kubuntu 7.10:
sudo apt-get remove --purge gtk-qt-engine
sudo apt-get install gettext libbonoboui2-dev cmake libgtk2.0-dev g++ kdebase-dev

download gtk-qt-engine source from:
http://gtk-qt.ecs.soton.ac.uk/downloads.php
extract it
cd /path/to/gtk-qt-engine
./configure
make
sudo make install

run kcontrol
appearance> gtk styles and fonts
check "use my kde style in gtk applications" and "Install firefox scrollbar fix"

[klerfayt (klerfayt-deactivatedaccount)]

in response to "Oleg Sevostyanov wrote on 2007-11-17":
What exactly is broken there?
Everything appears as it should with domino style.

[Oleg Sevostyanov (boothehamster)]

klerfayt, thanks for solution.
In konsole and other KDE apps scrollbars looks ok. I just place Domino style scrollbar look.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This isn't an issue any more in Intrepid, but unfortunately it hasn't gotten better. Currently firefox is bitten by bug 211578.