Re: Scrollbar bug on OS X

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On 8 Apr 2005, at 03:05, Miles Bader wrote:

>> Instead, suffice it to say that it should be up to
>> the UI layer to implement the exact behavior.
>
> The UI layer should be able to specify defaults; the final decision
> should be up to the user.

Either the user choses an environment, i.e. operating system, that 
specifies these defaults, or he gets more fine-grained control over the 
interface. That's all fine - like I said in my earlier message: it 
shouldn't be up to the application. For that reason stuff like 
wxWidgets has architectural advantages over the non-native widgets used 
by GTK. Non-native UI usually doesn't feel as nice and comfortable. To 
give a practical example, Java Swing applications always feel clunky 
and somehow "not right" on the Mac. (But then again, I concede that Mac 
users tend to me more picky about UI than your average GNU/Linux or 
Windows user.)