From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Subject: Re: Default position of the vertical scroll bar w/ GTK toolkit
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:13:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slxb1jqo.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85d5ogman0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> That talks about "viewer controls". Emacs is not predominantly a
> viewer, but an editor. That means that one uses the mouse often to
> place point, and the left border is more important than the right
> border. For a mere viewer, the right placement has the minuscule
> advantage that the typical cursor image does not obscur any content.
That is a good point, but I'm not sure that 'viewer controls' refers to
read-only widgets only. For what it's worth, the GNOME text editor
(gedit) has its scroll bar on the right.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-15 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-14 21:40 Default position of the vertical scroll bar w/ GTK toolkit Romain Francoise
2005-08-14 22:02 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-08-15 12:08 ` Romain Francoise
2005-08-15 12:22 ` Geoffrey Teale
2005-08-14 22:11 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-15 12:13 ` Romain Francoise [this message]
2005-08-15 18:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-15 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-15 19:58 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-15 20:13 ` Stephan Stahl
2005-08-16 12:52 ` Romain Francoise
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