Re: TUTORIAL and scroll bar

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Richard Stallman skrev:
>     > I guess this is done to be consistent with the defaults of the
>     > respective window-system.
> 
>     If that's the rationale, I suggest moving scroll bars to the right on
>     GTK as well.
> 
> The main reason for putting scroll bars on the left is that most of the text
> is on the left.  In ordinary X11 toolkit scroll bars, there are mouse
> clicks whose operation is based on the line you click on, so it is useful
> to see the scroll bar close to the text on the line.
> 
> However, the scroll bar commands on Windows and the Mac don't work
> that way, and it is not particularly useful for those scroll bars to
> be on the left.  So they may as well go on the right, where people
> usually expect them.
> 
> I am not sure what the scroll bar commands in the GTK version do.
> If they work like those of Windows, then those scroll bars may as
> well be on the right.

I am not sure which commands you mean. Dou you mean that middle click on the 
bar jumps the slider there?  GTK has that.

	Jan D.