From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gtk scroll bar: upstream bug report
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:54:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1C6E4C.6080405@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buotyareupn.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader skrev 2011-07-12 11.04:
> Richard Riley<rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>> I got the impression that scrollbars is even further away from the
>>> Emacs model nowdays. The minimum size requirement for the scroll
>>> bar thumb is more common with new fancy themes. The Emacs model is
>>> simply incompatible.
>>
>> How is it incompatible? There were many positive suggestions in that
>> old thread.
>
> Certainly the impression I got from the old discussions was that it
> wasn't so much that it was _difficult_ to support the Emacs model, but
> rather that they wanted to _prevent_ apps from using such a model
> because they thought it was bad (for the user?).
I think they want applications to behave the same, and the Emacs model is late
to the game (for Gtk+). So there is little reason to switch.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-09 18:45 gtk scroll bar: upstream bug report Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 17:12 ` Jan Djärv
2011-07-11 7:59 ` Andy Wingo
2011-07-11 10:19 ` Jan Djärv
2011-07-11 12:31 ` Richard Riley
2011-07-12 9:04 ` Miles Bader
2011-07-12 15:54 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2011-07-12 23:39 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-13 5:46 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-13 6:28 ` Tim Cross
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2011-07-13 11:30 grischka
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