Please undo the panel scrolling changes made in 8.8.0 or allow us an option to toggle it

11 votes

"Sections in the left panel are now always visible and don’t scroll out of view."

This has made navigation much worse. Previously it was easy just to scroll down to find what you want, but now all of the panels are much smaller and each one has its own scrollbar. Now instead of just one scrollbar there are multiple, and im having to constantly resize things. Its just really annoying.

Under consideration Suggested by: Luke (12 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 09 May, '23 • Comments: 7

Comments: 7

22 Aug, '22
James
Seconded. It is an absolute pain to navigate now.

I often expand large parts of a tree and then collapse it down back to a small list of folders. Having to resize the panels all the time is driving me nuts.

Not a bad idea at all but it should've been deployed with a toggle option.

Please consider toggles for these improvements in the future as standard.
29 Aug, '22
Thomas Merged
I already found a request for this which I already up voted.

https://feedback.gitkraken.com/suggestions/321870/please-undo-the-panel-scrolling-changes-made-in-880-or-allow-us-an-option-to-tog
13 Sep, '22
Mary Jo Sminkey
100% agree. I really preferred how it was before. Please at least make it an option to have that sidebar scrollable for those of us that prefer it that way.
15 Sep, '22
Jonathan Admin
"Add scrolling to the left pane" (suggested by Thomas on 2022-08-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
31 Jan, '23
Mary Jo Sminkey
To add to this request, I typically use GitKraken on a Windows VM. For some reason, the mouse scrolling does not work properly in GitKraken, compared to other applications (I use a Logitech trackball connected via BT which VMWare just maps as a generic USB mouse). It often takes several clicks of the scroll wheel before it moves, and then it jumps a bunch of lines. This is annoying, but not a major issue on the other panels that take up the full height of the page, on the small sections that are now what we are stuck with on the left panel, it means it often jumps completely past the branch I was trying to get to, so I am stuck with having to grab the scroll bar and manually pull it up and down to where I want to get to. Which is a HUGE time waster. If I was able to reset it back to the way it used to have these panels, I would not have the same issue.
09 May, '23
Adam Ladanyi Merged
Since the new design, manually resizing the sections in the left sidebar wastes a lot of my time. I would prefer to have the option to have the open sections automatically sized to show all content, and have the scrollbar for the sidebar itself back. The number of branches I have locally and remotely, the number of stashes, pull requests and the jira issues changes very often, and it's really time consuming to always having to resize EVERY subsections every time.
12 May, '23
Joey Kelroy Admin
"Option to switch back to previous sidebar behaviour" (suggested by Adam Ladanyi on 2023-05-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.