Issue 15938 - Horizontal scrollbar displayed without a need for it
Summary: Horizontal scrollbar displayed without a need for it
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P4 Trivial with 7 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact:
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Keywords: oooqa
: 42100 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-06-23 13:15 UTC by robed
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:44 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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2003-11-03 08:23 UTC, utomo99 		no flags Details
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Description robed 2003-06-23 13:15:02 UTC 
The horizontal scrollbar in Write is diplayed eventhough there is onthong in
horizont exceeding the extents of the window (the arrows on the sides are inactive).
Comment 1 utomo99 2003-11-03 08:22:07 UTC 
I can Reproduce the problem on 
OpenOffice 1.1 (default Install, US), Win XP Pro Sp1. 
(And MS Office XP Sp2). 
It is real problem

when page is enough in screen, no need to display disabled horizontal
scrolbar. we can utilize it for one line of editing 

change prio to p4
Comment 2 utomo99 2003-11-03 08:23:59 UTC 
Created attachment 10901 [details]
screenshot unecessary horizontal scrolbar
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2003-11-03 09:51:35 UTC 
SBA: Change component to "Word Processor". In this application, I can
agree that this is a defect. For Spreadsheet, Drawing and Presentation
this needs to be specified, therefore it would be an enhancement. Feel
free to submit enhancement issues for the other applications. 
Target set to "OOo Later". Reassigned to Oliver.
Comment 4 Oliver Specht 2003-11-03 10:01:21 UTC 
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Comment 5 oooforum (fr) 2006-11-23 13:42:21 UTC 
In the same way, if you choose a lower zoom, scrollbar is always enabled. You
can not to scroll screen to move page in middle position.
Comment 6 ralphie 2007-09-22 18:00:19 UTC 
Is this still worked on? 

This is not only a Windows bug, but also the case in Linux (Gnome version in my
case). Still reproducible in 2.3

I guess when you add up the area of all the hundreds of thousand OO 
installation's useless horizontal scrollbars, you get several football 
fields of wasted screen estate  ;)
Comment 7 ralphie 2007-09-22 18:01:00 UTC 
Is this still worked on? 

This is not only a Windows bug, but also the case in Linux (Gnome version in my
case). Still reproducible in 2.3

I guess when you add up the area of all the hundreds of thousand OO 
installation's useless horizontal scrollbars, you get several football 
fields of wasted screen estate  ;)
Comment 8 Oliver Specht 2007-09-24 11:50:34 UTC 
->ralphie: No it is not worked on. You can see this at the target "OOLater".
Comment 9 johanneseva 2008-02-12 20:14:19 UTC 
Some years after, it's still the case...
I am not a programmer, but is it so difficult do implement?
Would be great!
Comment 10 santiago473 2013-11-02 01:46:33 UTC 
I'd also be glad if this bug gets fixed – it's now over 10 years (!) in the bug tracker. The appearance of the scrollbar even if it is not in use at all is an absolutely pointless waste of screen space, especially on wide screen and notebook monitors.

As a work-around you can at the moment use the Open Office fork Libre Office where this issue got fixed (maybe some of their code could be used to fix this in Open Office too).
Comment 11 santiago473 2013-11-02 01:57:56 UTC 
PS: The currently still open Bug 42100 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=42100) is a duplicate of this.
Comment 12 rgb 2013-11-19 20:39:28 UTC 
*** Issue 42100 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 13 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:44:38 UTC 
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".