Add a Show/Hide option for the Palette's scrollbar

[Marcos Cançado Ribeiro]

Pallete scrolling with the mouse wheel should also work when the mouse pointer is over the pallete itself, not only when the mouse pointer is over scrollbar.

The implementation of this improvement should come with the addition, at the menu 'View => Show/Hide', of the option 'Pallete's Scrollbar', because it makes the pallete's scrollbar bar useless and allows us to turn the area it takes in a working area.

The Bug #318363, reported on 2009-01-18, already requested the pallete scrolling with the mouse. I am opening this new one because I am adding the request of the option to hide the pallete's scrowbar. I hope I am not infringing the norms.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

a)
> Pallete scrolling with the mouse wheel should also work
> when the mouse pointer is over the pallete itself

It does work, the same way it is implemented for other widgets/windows: use 'Shift+mouse wheel' to scroll the palette even when the mouse is not hovering the scrollbar.

b)
> (…) should come with the addition, at the menu 'View => Show/Hide',
> of the option 'Pallete's Scrollbar'

- You can change the view of the palette to 'Wrap' to avoid the scrollbar.

- I'm not sure if simply hiding the scrollbar would be a userfriendly solution (you'd probably want to have arrows displayed at both ends to indicate that there are additional swatches, or use some other interface elements indicating in which direction to scroll for additional colors)

- OTOH, this issue came up last year on the developer's mailing list (in a related discussion about bug #602698 “Sanitize default palettes”:):
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/34350/focus=34365>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/602698>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

See also the status as well as the discussion of this earlier feature request:
Bug #171260 “hide palette scrollbar when not needed”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171260>

[Marcos Cançado Ribeiro (marcoscanrib)]

Hi ~suv

> It does work, the same way it is implemented for other widgets/windows:
> use 'Shift+mouse wheel' to scroll the palette even when the mouse is not hovering the scrollbar.

No. In Windows it doesn't work, neither with Shift.
And it should not need the Shift key, that would be a hindrance.

> You can change the view of the palette to 'Wrap' to avoid the scrollbar.

It takes more space from the canvas and does not hide the scrollbar.

> I'm not sure if simply hiding the scrollbar would be a userfriendly solution (you'd probably want to have arrows displayed at both ends to indicate that there are additional swatches, or use some other interface elements indicating in which direction to scroll for additional colors)

Yes, the arrows at both ends would improve my suggestion, and would take much less space than the scrollbar.

> See also the status as well as the discussion of this earlier feature request:
Bug #171260 “hide palette scrollbar when not needed”

Yes, this clearly was a good improvement. And it confirms that other people dislike the palette scrollbar. It's time to take another step ahead, because it already became clear that the palette scrollbar may NEVER be needed, if we may scroll the palette with the mouse wheel.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Bug #318363 "Pallete scrolling works incorrectly" is now fixed in the trunk.
Renaming the report so that it deals with the remaining issue only (Show/Hide option for the Palette's scrollbar).