From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: scrollbar (again)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:39:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84fzp7bdbl.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200303281629.KAA28551@eel.dms.auburn.edu
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Click with mouse-2 on the thumb (or slider, whatever you want to call
> it) in the lower portion of the thumb, but clearly inside the thumb.
> The idea is to start dragging the thumb around. However, the buffer
> immediately scrolls to some far away area.
IIRC, the behavior in the no-toolkit case is similar to xterm. That
is, the top of the thumb will be warped to where you clicked mouse-2.
I agree that this makes it difficult to start dragging. It's
something I don't like about this kind of scrollbar. Nevertheless, I
think it's still the best scrollbar there is, functionality-wise.
I also used to like the OpenView (XView? OpenLook?) scrollbar that
was used in OpenWindows applications of yore. It made it easier to
drag but didn't have the nifty "scroll N lines" feature that the
no-toolkit scrollbar has.
These days, I rarely use the scrollbar and thus circumvent the
problem...
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-28 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-28 16:29 scrollbar (again) Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 17:39 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-03-28 19:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 20:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-28 20:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-28 22:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 23:04 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-03-28 23:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 23:59 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-29 0:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-29 7:58 ` Jan D.
2003-03-29 16:03 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-29 17:28 ` Jan D.
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