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Setting to allow scrollbars to ALWAYS be visible, if content + view size requires scrollbars #192305

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ps2goat opened this issue Sep 6, 2023 · 5 comments
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editor-scrollbar Editor scrolling issues feature-request Request for new features or functionality

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ps2goat commented Sep 6, 2023

Starting a new issue based on this comment and its reply

Pane is used throughout this request as an alternative name to View, as in Explorer View.

TLDR; Can we have a setting to make the scrollbars of every pane be visible and not disappear, if content requires scrollbars?

This should apply when applicable, similar to a web page. If there is no more vertical or horizontal content to show, then the scrollbar does not need to be visible/shown. If there is enough content that a scrollbar would be shown if the mouse moved, show the scrollbars.

If it is desirable to only enable a subset of panes, it could be a setting that takes an array of pane setting names/values for which to enable it. Perhaps "*" could represent enabling it for all.

A similar setting exists to Autohide the minimap, if it is enabled, and this is disabled by default.

⚠️ If you read through the linked issue thread above, another issue posters tried to fix was content running through the scrollbar area. This was averted by enabling the minimap; people who didn't want to use the minimap then set the width to 0. Perhaps the content running through could be fixed with this "always-enabled" scrollbar update, or that may have to be fixed before this one?

Basically, it seems like an accessibility issue, or at least a difference of expectations, when the scrollbars disappear upon navigating to new windows or editor panes. The "expectations," having used mostly Windows, web browsers, and many other apps, is that the scrollbar remains visible. I know that some operating systems, I think OS X and now Windows 11, hide the scrollbar if the mouse isn't moving, but at least Windows 11 (maybe OS X?) has a system setting to "Always show scrollbars", and this is under Accessibility -> Visual effects.

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With respect to editors only, there is an applicable setting:

Editor > Scrollbar: Vertical    // can set this to "visible"

Same for horizontal scrollbars. Affects editors only though.

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ps2goat commented Sep 7, 2023

Thanks, that's a bit of an improvement!

The one downside is that it shows all the time, even if the open file doesn't have more than one screen of content. I'd rather have this than nothing, though.

@alexdima alexdima added feature-request Request for new features or functionality editor-scrollbar Editor scrolling issues labels Dec 5, 2023
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@vscodenpa vscodenpa added this to the Backlog Candidates milestone Dec 5, 2023
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This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

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This feature request has not yet received the 20 community upvotes it takes to make to our backlog. 10 days to go. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

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🙁 In the last 60 days, this feature request has received less than 20 community upvotes and we closed it. Still a big Thank You to you for taking the time to create this issue! To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

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@vscodenpa vscodenpa closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Feb 5, 2024
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