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From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TUTORIAL and scroll bar
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:21:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DADE88.8040102@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoirl19jpd.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>



Miles Bader skrev:

> Xtk (and ATK for that matter) scrollbars use a very clever and handy
> definition for the left/right mouse keys:  a left mouse-click in the
> scrollbar scrolls so that the line next to the mouse pointer is at to
> the top of the window; a right mouse-click scrolls so that the line at
> the top of the window is next to the mouse-pointer.
> 
> Thus you can intuitively and precisely control the amount by which the
> window scrolls due to mouse l/r scrollbar clicks (near the top of the
> bar = "scroll a little", near the bottom = "scroll a lot").

Ok, but should we move Motif scroll bars to the right also then?  They don't 
behave like that either.

David Kastrup skrev:

 > GTK is nice, but its scroll bars suck as badly as almost anybody
 > else's.  Some years ago I asked on the GTK+ developer list whether
 > they would be thinking of some option to put into .gtkrc-2.0 to fix
 > that for people who could live without the dumbed-down bars of GTK+,
 > but nobody was particularly interested in taking that up.
 >

They seem to be content with the current behaviour.  You can't even remap 
buttons, they are hardcoded in the C-code.

	Jan D.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 23:39 TUTORIAL and scroll bar Richard Stallman
2006-08-09  3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-09  3:36   ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-09  6:33     ` Romain Francoise
2006-08-09 19:16     ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-10  6:28       ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-10  6:41         ` Miles Bader
2006-08-10  7:21           ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2006-08-10  7:27             ` David Kastrup
2006-08-10  6:49         ` David Kastrup
2006-08-09  6:55   ` David Kastrup
2006-08-09  7:07     ` Miles Bader
2006-08-09  7:14       ` David Kastrup
2006-08-09 10:00         ` Yavor Doganov
2006-08-10  1:13           ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-09 19:16   ` Richard Stallman

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