Re: Extending fringe backgrounds to scroll bar gaps

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu skrev:
> There have been several reports/complaints about small gaps beside
> toolkit scroll bars on the frame edges.  Some complained about the gap
> with the frame edge, and others the one with the fringe of the window.
> (I think the latter makes more sense because a scroll bar is
> associated with its scrolling target, i.e., window, not with the
> containing frame.)
> 
> According to *1 and *2, this is due to the restrictions that toolkit
> scroll bars have a fixed width and each window must be placed on a
> multiple of the frame default column width.  Though the latter is
> planned to be relaxed in future, that will/should not happen before
> the release, of course.
> 
>   *1 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2005-07/msg00326.html
>   *2 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-10/msg00291.html
> 
> I've just tried extending the fringe backgrounds to such scroll bar
> gaps.  Its rough idea is already mentioned in *3.  I think this is
> simple enough to incorporate before the release (if it works properly,
> of course).  What do people think about that?
> 
>   *3 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2005-09/msg00334.html
> 

Did you try this with Gtk+?  I think the background in that case is drawn by 
Gtk+ itself, so anything xterm.c does gets overwritten.  Or depending on the 
timing of expose events, sometimes Gtk+ gets to draw the background, sometimes 
it is done from xterm.c.

	Jan D.