Good day, system info:
Linux mint 20.2 Cinnamon 5.07
Kernel 5.4.0-205-generic
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor × 8
Memory 31.3 GiB
Graphics card NVIDIA Corporation TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti]
Darktable 5.0.1
I’ve been using Darktable on Linux since 2021 and have come to enjoy the workflow and flexibility it offers, and the effort I’ve put into learning the UI has paid off big time. Many thanks and hats off to the development team!
However, in the last release of the software, I find one modification most irritating and I would like to know the general feeling about it.
In the darkroom page, the side panel control button (small triangle open/close button) used to be on the inside of the display rather than on the outside as in version 5.0 now. I used to be able to just hit the display border with the mouse pointer where the scroll bar used to be and use the mouse wheel to navigate up and down in the panel to the different modules, then move left over cursors and use the mouse wheel to make adjustments in each module without having to use the keyboard. Now, in the new version, I have use Alt+Ctrl keys to let me scroll up and down in the panel, or, use Alt+Ctrl keys to be able to use the mouse wheel to make adjustments to cursors, depending on the chosen option in the settings “miscelaneous/mouse wheel scrolls modules side panel by default”.
There is no choice, you either have to use the Alt+Ctrl keys to scroll the side panel or the cursors. It’s driving me nuts!!! The scroll bar is too narrow and one has to fiddle with the mouse to precisely position the pointer over it, not usable…
One way to solve the problem would be to move the scroll bar to the extreme right and put the side menu control button between the scroll bar and the side panel.
Hi! One way to combat scrolling would be to turn on the preference to open one module at a time. Sadly Ctrl+alt+scroll can’t be remapped; I’d happily put it on an easier key combo if I could.
Yes, I have that checked on… However, I still have to navigate up and down to reach other modules.
It used to be so simple, just hit the border with the mouse, scroll up and down with the wheel, move back in to the module cursor to make adjustments, easy. Now I have to keep two fingers on the keyboard to press Alt+Ctrl all the time…
Is this what you mean…I haven’t built my version of DT for a couple of weeks but the video I show you I am just moving back and forth and I have edited the css to be narrow scrollbars as you can just go out of bounds and they work??
Todd, I don’t see the side panel control widgets anywhere on your screen. But your mouse movements appear to correspond to Charles’s comment, “It used to be so simple, just hit the border with the mouse, scroll up and down with the wheel, move back in to the module cursor to make adjustments, easy.”
I agree with Charles’s annoyance with the new layout. No more flying out to (or beyond) the edge of the screen to scroll. The area containing the side panel control is there to collect errant clicks, and the entire area containing that control is sensitive, not just the arrow. The scroll bar is very narrow, and is only about half as wide as the area containing the side panel control. I find that I am accidentally closing the right side panel frequently, and I have to slow right down to put the cursor over the scroll bar. I’d vote to undo this layout change.
