0010326: Summary Scroll Bar - Suggestions about updating its mouse based behavior - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0010326	ardour	features	public	2026-05-11 00:15	2026-05-11 00:15

Reporter	sound8	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	9.2

Summary	0010326: Summary Scroll Bar - Suggestions about updating its mouse based behavior
Description	`Summary` is a really great feature, not seen in many other applications. Also like how you can resize the bar as well. I can understand why it was programmed the way it is but to be honest to this day I still get confused when I try to use it. Reason for this is I always try to navigate with it as if it was a standard horizontal scroll bar. I had made the suggestion to add the holding of SHIFT + MSW to achieve more common horizontal scroll bar behavior which was added to Ardour (also recent sensitivity fix suggested works great), so I am aware of this functionality but I wonder if any of the following would be considered, if it would not upset developers / other users? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CURRENT BEHAVIORS I think these current behaviors work great -hold LMB on box or anywhere in the bar and drag left / right = moves box horizontally left/right -hold LMB on box or anywhere in the bar and drag up / down = zoom in/out UPDATE SUGGESTIONS -MSW = horizontal scroll left/right (instead of zoom in/out and is already achieve by drag up/down action) -LMB single click anywhere in the bar = moves the entire box directly to that section These two updated actions would basically bring the functionality of having to hold down the SHIFT key, directly into being able to be used achieved without the holding of SHIFT. If this suggestion does get added I would also allow CTRL+MSW anywhere in the Summary bar to also perform zoom in / out, which is common action also used in the Editor pane itself. (This is the current behavior, just not sure if this would get removed with the update, if it does then I would add it back) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to anyone who reads this
Additional Information	I also suggest slightly changing its name as well :) https://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=10325
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2026-05-11 00:15	sound8	New Issue