1480906 - Add an API for enabling draggable scrollbars

Status: NEW

(GeckoView :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Randall Barker [:rbarker]]

In user testing for FxR, a top complaint was that scroll bars were not drag able. It would be useful to have a setting that enabled desktop style scrollbars in GeckoView.

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

FxR would like this for 1.1.

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Andre says: "This is a nice to have for 1.1 - if it's easy, we should do it. But we have a lot of higher priority work that's about to come down the pipe in the <month of dev time we have, so should be cautious."

Randall says: "there are issues with the spec as it stands right now (namely rendering it over content makes it nearly impossible to click content UI underneath it)."

Comment 3

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

(In reply to Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] from comment #2)
> Randall says: "there are issues with the spec as it stands right now (namely
> rendering it over content makes it nearly impossible to click content UI
> underneath it)."

More generally speaking (no idea about the particular requirements of FxR), what about draggable scroll thumbs like in other Android apps? Those would fade out again like our current scroll bars do when the page is not being scrolled.

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Randall says FxR 1.1 might want this but they haven't spec'd the UX for draggable scroll bars.

Comment 5

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

64=wontfix because FxR 1.1 is using GV 65 and this issue doesn't block Focus 8.0 from using GV 64.

Comment 6

[Philip Lamb]

FxR issue: https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality/issues/317

Comment 8

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Tasks and enhancements should have severity N/A.