Re: [evolution-patches] Patch to fix scrollbar policy in mail/

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

It is done this way on purpose, otherwise gtkhtml has to re-calculate and re-render almost every single email since the window size changes as it incrementally renders the display.

I highly recommend against this change.

Looking at cvs annotate for this line of code:
1.2          (zucchi   17-Sep-03): 	/* currently: just use a scrolledwindow for preview widget */
1.2          (zucchi   17-Sep-03): 	p->preview = gtk_scrolled_window_new(NULL, NULL);
1.13         (rodo     07-Jan-04): 	gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy((GtkScrolledWindow *)p->preview, GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC, GTK_POLICY_ALWAYS);
1.2          (zucchi   17-Sep-03): 	gtk_scrolled_window_set_shadow_type((GtkScrolledWindow *)p->preview, GTK_SHADOW_IN);
1.2          (zucchi   17-Sep-03): 	gtk_widget_show(p->preview);

then looking at the commit entry for revision 1.13:
revision 1.13
date: 2004/01/07 15:58:45;  author: rodo;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
2004-01-07  Radek Doulik  <rodo ximian com>

	* em-message-browser.c (emmb_init): as below

	* em-folder-browser.c (emfb_init): always show vertical scrollbar,
	we do the same for message list and it avoids ugly flicker

clearly shows why this is done like it is.

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:47 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> This patch fixes the scrollbar policy in the mailer to match the rest of
> the desktop. It changes the vertical scrollbar to AUTOMATIC instead of
> ALWAYS, so that it isn't shown when not needed.
>
> -- dobey