scrollbar has some problem with multiple tabs

Thank you for reporting. This is a known upstream issue, you can track the progress here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542396

This problem still exists after GNOME 2.24 was released. That's really poor.

I'd like to add that you don't even have to do any tricks with showing hidden files, simply tab swapping will kill the scrollbar. Resizing the window brings it back for the active tab, but loses the scrollbar(s) for the other tabs.

I can report the same issue. Found it because when I am in a tab wich requires vertical scrolling and i open a new tab with ctrl+t, the scrollbar on the previous window dissapears.

For me on 8.10 RC - simply opening a new tab kills the scroll bar on the original tab... lame

I can confirm that the bug still exists in Intrepid RC.

I just wanted to report the same issue! When you open folders that needs scrolling in tabs. There is no scrolbar!

Confirmed in Intrepid final.

Bug: If you have nautilus open and middle-click a folder to open it in a new tab, if it has a number of items that overflow the window size, the scrollbar will not be shown on this new tab.

Workaround: resizing the nautilus window, even just slightly will force the scrollbar to be generated.

ollie, You didn't find a jewel... ;)

If anyone looks on bugs @bugzilla.gnome that can be say that developers has been fucked bugs and don't remember about it...

Is it possible that this is a result of upgrading instead of doing a fresh install? Is there some setting to reset to fix this? I find it hard to believe that this bug is getting so little attention if it is not because it pretty much makes the tabs in nautilus useless.

I have the problem and I did a fresh installation of intrepid.

I formatted all partitions before installation.

Ditto. Do tabs work correctly for anyone?

the bug is not likely due to a setting or specific to upgrade no, and nautilus gets lot of bugs and there is a the team working on it has limited ressources and tabs is only one of the view available there

Can be this bug added for Ubuntu 9.04 milestone?

that would be nice to get that fixed in jaunty indeed, adding the milestone to the bug now

Does anyone know if this is fixed in the 2.25.2 version of GNOME that was released today?

Changelog:

2008-12-02 Vincent Untz <email address hidden>

 * configure.in:
 * NEWS:
 * README: version 2.25.2

2008-12-01 Vincent Untz <email address hidden>

 * configure.in: require GTK+ 2.14. Fix bug #556252.

2008-12-01 Vincent Untz <email address hidden>

bug #556252 - need gtk 2.14 for gtk_show_uri

I think that this bug isn't fixed :)

Yep not fixed.No scrollbar in tabbed window.

fix it please!!

also
open a tab with more files than displayable
open a new tabe to the same place

go to first tab
notice that tab has no scroll
press down
notice that nautilus doesn't scroll but you highlight a file off screen

switching to a minimizing and restoring nautilus when on tab 1 restores the scroolbar
but disables it on tab 2

Side note: pressing F5 or Ctrl-R (refresh) makes the scrollbar (re)appear on the currently open tab. Nautilus still knows how to render directory contents afresh.

fix it please, it gives ubuntu a bad name!

I have provided a patch in the Gnome bugzilla. It solves the problem for me.

I can confirm that this patch fixes the scrollbar problem in nautilus 2.24

I let nautilus compile in my PPA with this patch applied.
nautilus - 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2~ppa0

https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive

I can confirm that this patch fixes the bug.

Thank you.

The packages have been build in my PPA.
They will be superseded by the new ubunu release
that hopefully includes the attached patch.

I can also confirm this patch fixes the bug.
Thank you, Alberto and Christoph

Sorry for the noob question but
How can I get this patch applied?

You can get the current sources by "apt-get source nautilus"
You can then download the patch: "wget -O scrollbars.patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21136285/10_scrollbars.patch"
Then cd into the source tree and run: patch -p1 < ../scrollbars.patch

You can also just install the packages from my PPA which just
have this patch applied. My packages will be superseded by the next version
from Ubuntu.

Thanks Christoph, but I don't know where the Source tree is located at.
I also tried to search for .patch files only and files named
'scrollbars' after have done the step you suggested. No search result.
So I don't know where to cd through the terminal to apply the patch.

Any idea?

Em Ter, 2009-01-13 às 10:50 +0000, Christoph Korn escreveu:
> You can get the current sources by "apt-get source nautilus"
> You can then download the patch: "wget -O scrollbars.patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21136285/10_scrollbars.patch"
> Then cd into the source tree and run: patch -p1 < ../scrollbars.patch
>
> You can also just install the packages from my PPA which just
> have this patch applied. My packages will be superseded by the next version
> from Ubuntu.
>

RoDoLFo TX use Christoph's ppa for the packages https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive/+index# you will see an entry for nautilus open it scroll down to the bottom and choose the appropriate .deb file you need. That way is simple and clean thanks to Christoph.

i also have this bug, in some tabs i don't have the scrollbar an i have to go up a level and return to the folder to have scrollbar.

this was fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

Is it included in gnome 2.24.3 that was just released? Will the patch be included in intrepid?

the change will be uploaded to jaunty next week, it's not in 2.24.3 no but we will backport it if it's confirmed to work on jaunty

declining the bug nomination since the bug has been fixed upstream and the change will be in the next upload, there is no need to add paper work there

the issue is fixed in jaunty now

Accepted nautilus into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

@Martin: the fix seems to work fine. Good job!

The new packages work for me as well. Thanks!

is there any update available to fix this bug in intrepid ibex?

manzur - please read comment 40 (3 comments up from yours)

i get this error:

An error occurred

The following details are provided:
--
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 632D16BB0C713DA6
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 4874D3686E80C6B7
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 28A8205077558DD0

I confirm this patch get this issue solved.
I tried it through Update Manager (proposed updates) and it worked out.

Thank you.

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2

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nautilus (1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_svn_change_display_scrollbars_when_required.patch:
    - svn change to fix scrollbars not being displayed in tabs sometime
      (lp: #251809)
  * debian/patches/91_svn_change_new_mounts_correctly_displayed.patch:
    - svn change to get new mounts correctly displayed, that is required
      to have nautilus behaving correctly on smb shares and fix bug #207072

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:50:08 +0100