From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Native scrollbars?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:40:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B76ABE1.7000904@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wryhjob5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
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David Kastrup skrev:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup skrev:
>>
>>> Toolkit native scrollbars are the default with Emacs. They don't annoy
>>> a lot of users apparently. Probably also because the geek demographic
>>> of Emacs is different from that of XEmacs.
>>>
>> IMHO, the XEmacs Lucid scroll bars look much better than Emacs native
>> scrollbars. I think that may be a factor also.
>
> I was of the opinion that both used the same code (Lucid), so it would
> probably just be a matter of the default settings.
>
> Personally, I use
>
> (setq-default scroll-bar-width 15)
>
I don't think I have any settings that affects this. I attach a screen shot of
lucid scroll bars in XEmacs (left) and Emacs (right). The difference is
apparent. It could possibly be fixed by some X resource setting, I haven't tried.
Anyway, the Emacs native scroll bar isn't based on Lucid, and looks much worse.
Jan D.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-13 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-30 13:34 visible-bell patch for Mac OS X Filipe Cabecinhas
2010-01-31 3:34 ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-01 0:41 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-02-01 15:56 ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-01 23:33 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-02-02 1:40 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-02-02 1:45 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-02-02 8:47 ` Leo
2010-02-13 1:30 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-02-13 1:51 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-02-13 3:54 ` Native scrollbars? [was: visible-bell patch for Mac OS X] Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-02-13 5:45 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-02-13 6:45 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-02-13 7:32 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-02-13 13:32 ` Jan Djärv
2010-02-13 9:00 ` Native scrollbars? David Kastrup
2010-02-13 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-13 12:23 ` Jan Djärv
2010-02-13 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2010-02-13 13:40 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2010-02-13 14:26 ` David Kastrup
2010-02-13 13:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-02-13 6:45 ` visible-bell patch for Mac OS X YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-02-13 7:01 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-02-13 7:54 ` Jan Djärv
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