Created attachment 1496341 [details] Example #1 broken scrollbars Description of problem: The scrollbars are broken after an upgrade. First and foremost, the arrow buttons are missing, so it's not possible anymore to slowly scroll through a document to read it. Clicking ("the through") between the thumb and the (missing) array buttons to scroll one screenful is broken too because it jumps all the way to where the cursor is instead of just one screenful. It's literally impossible to navigate through a document like that, without working scrollbars. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): - How reproducible: Most applications affected. Chromium is an exception. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a large document. Scrollbars appear (or not: Pluma). 2. Try to work with that document, search for something in the middle or something. 3. Downgrade or install Windows to get scrollbars. Actual results: - Arrow buttons missing - Clicking through to scroll a screenful not working anymore - In Pluma, for example, the sliders disappear, you get lost Expected results: I need scrollbars to work. Additional info: It appears the scrollbars have morphed into simple sliders, like those on smartphones. However, this is about computers, not about phones. Having to work with large documents without scrollbars is dreadful. Using the arrow keys on the keyboard isn't an alternative either, which (I hope) should be obvious if you look at the attached example screenshot. First of all, you have to change the focus for that, which you may not want to do in split windows. In text editors, you'd have to carefully select whichever line happens to be in the viewport and click on another one whenever you've reached the end of the current line, like in screenshot #2. Also, just imagine what it feels like to use these sliders: You can't keep scrolling, so you click on a line to set the cursor (screenshot #2: line 281) and hold the (right) arrow key. That's very slow, you'd normally want to scroll a screenful or two until you reach a section that you want to read, where you'd scroll by holding the arrow buttons if they weren't missing. At some point, you'll reach the end of the line at which point you go flying back all the way to the left (if you're still holding the right arrow key). It seems like someone had to change a design by removing features, as it happens so often. Even Windows still has working scrollbars nowadays. And Chromium isn't affected either as it has its own scrollbars.
Created attachment 1496342 [details] Example #2 broken scrollbars
Scrollbars haven't changed in gtk1. Given that pluma is a gtk3 application, I guess you mean scrollbars are broken in gtk3 - reassigning.
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I'd highly appreciate any explanation how I'm supposed to scroll, see screenshot #2.
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Created attachment 1698114 [details] still unable to scroll It's still not possible to scroll (screenshot showing Firefox in Fedora Linux). To be absolutely clear: Not being able to scroll is *not* a matter of taste. Scrolling is a basic feature of graphical desktops which has been available since the 90s! And for some strange reason, this basic gui feature was removed from Fedora Linux. I would like to talk to the person who broke the scrollbars and ask them how I should now work with documents (yes, I actually work, I don't have anything to "swipe" away).
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This is an upstream behaviour change, but certain parts of it can be overridden by the user, theme and/or application developer. The GtkScrolledWindow documentation has some more information: https://developer-old.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkScrolledWindow.html As for clicking on a scrollbar to scroll by a "page", that can be accomplished with a right-click in the trough.