I've been seeing a few posts lately about people not figuring out some lists are scrollable (the most visible example is in the profile settings list). Can't say i blame them, there's no visual cue to show the list continues down.
On a desktop, when there's something to be scrolled, there's a scrollbar. This shows there's more than what you see on the screen, inviting you to peek lower.
Some may argue the scroll bars take up space, but that's not true: if you look closely, when they do appear (during scrolling) they are on the frame, on a space that is reserved anyway, but unusable.
So my proposal: make the scroll bars always visible. Or at least make that user-settable. I'm pretty sure it's not a major task
What say you?

My exact words: it would be handy.

Shameless *bump*

Would be nice in some cases.

This is why HildonPannableArea (http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-fi...nableArea.html) has the \\\"hscrollbar-policy\\\" and \\\"vscrollbar-policy\\\" properties; it\\\'s up the application\\\'s developer if they wish to set them to GTK_POLICY_ALWAYS for a scrollbar instance in an application.

Personally, not being able to drag the scrollbars used in the PannableArea is a major source of annoyance for me - try going to the end of http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23mae...12-08.log.html in the Maemo Browser...

Barring that, one could always modify hildon-pannable-area.c in libhildon to always show the scrollbars, regardless of the policy...

Your knowledge is starting to annoy me (as in making me jealous ).
Changing the c file would probably be a nice hack, but it won't solve the problem unless we recompile everything. And since the profile settings part can't be recompiled, well....

Look also here for brainstrom and possible screenshots
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...314#post527314

Regards Markus