From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:56:50 +0000 Message-ID: <45DDBD42.9060006@gnu.org> References: <45D9D847.6080806@gmail.com> <45DDB1CF.1090905@arcor.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172159854 27420 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2007 15:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephan Hennig Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 22 16:57:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKGJh-0001Gm-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:57:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKGJh-0007hs-FH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKGJV-0007hY-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKGJS-0007hM-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKGJS-0007hJ-5m; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HKGJR-00059H-Mx; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D1C52A8F; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:56:53 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (jason-me2b.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50BE1AE; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:56:52 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <45DDB1CF.1090905@arcor.de> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66620 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:17187 Archived-At: Stephan Hennig wrote: > I've done some tests with that version now (This is GNU Emacs 22.0.93.1 > (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-02-19 on LENNART-69DE564). > > Scrolling has indeed improved. The erratic up and down movement of the > buffer while dragging the scrollbar in _one_ direction seems to has gone > away. > > Still there are some problems: > It seems that the latest change reverted the previous buggy behaviour to earlier buggy behaviour, where the scrollbar handle resizes as you scroll. If this behaviour is generally preferred to the previous behaviour, then we should leave it like this until after the release. Experience has shown that it is going to take major changes in the way we perform our scroll-bar related calculations to make an improvement in this area without breaking it in some other way.