From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:12:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA3E4C88-6148-11D7-AF93-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18yvfS-00079B-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
>> My suggestion is to display a thumb that rises from the bottom of the
>> scroll bar, but is shorter than normal, as if the bottom of the thumb
>> were hidden beyond the end of the scroll bar. Others may think
>> of a better way to indicate this situation.
>
> As the native scroll bars do? The disadvantage is that then the
> thumb size in relation to the scroll bar size looses the
> connection of how much of the buffer you are seeing w.r.t. the
> size of the buffer.
>
> Either we are miscommunicating about something basic, or I disagree.
> In what I envision, the visible thumb size would reflect the amount of
> real text visible in the window. As window-start gets closer to
> point-max, the amount of visible text decreases, and so should the
> thumb size.
It is just a difference in interpretation. For you a small thumb means
that the number of visible real text is small.
When I see a thumb that is 1/3 of the scroll bar size, I take that to
mean that the buffer size is about 3 times larger than what can be
displayed in a page. If we should scroll "off the bottom" so that
the thumb becomes 1/10 of the scroll bar size, obviously the buffer
has not become 10 times the size of one page, but rather ten times
larger than the visible real text.
I don't claim that one view is better than the other, it is just
what I am used to, mainly using scroll bars in applications where the
thumb size is practically fixed as long as the content stay the same.
Jan D.
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2003-03-25 14:51 Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short Kai Großjohann
2003-03-25 18:54 ` Jan D.
2003-03-25 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-26 18:26 ` Jan D.
2003-03-26 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-27 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 15:48 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-27 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 21:07 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-27 21:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 21:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 21:41 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-27 22:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 22:46 ` Jody Goldberg
2003-03-28 2:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 4:28 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-28 6:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-29 18:38 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-28 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-28 13:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 16:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-03-27 18:27 ` Jan D.
2003-03-27 20:54 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-28 1:48 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-28 1:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-28 1:51 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-28 15:04 ` Kim F. Storm
[not found] ` <m21y0rruj4.fsf@primate.xs4all.nl>
2003-03-28 23:57 ` Kim F. Storm
[not found] ` <m2wuijqdu3.fsf@primate.xs4all.nl>
2003-03-29 1:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-03-31 7:52 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-31 11:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-03-28 12:43 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-03-28 13:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 15:11 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-03-28 15:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-28 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-28 16:18 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-03-28 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-29 18:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-29 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-28 15:20 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-28 15:44 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-28 18:25 ` Jan D.
2003-03-27 18:41 ` Jan D.
2003-03-28 15:21 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-28 17:27 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-30 19:24 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-31 18:12 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-31 22:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-31 22:16 ` Owen Taylor
2003-03-31 22:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-31 23:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-31 22:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-01 0:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-01 17:48 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-02 1:39 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-02 2:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-01 9:38 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-01 17:26 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-02 1:33 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-02 3:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-02 3:55 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-02 4:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-02 4:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-02 11:07 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-02 13:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-02 13:11 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-02 14:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-02 14:03 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-03 10:38 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-07 15:35 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-07 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-07 18:30 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-07 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-07 18:57 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-07 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-07 19:21 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-07 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-08 2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-08 14:56 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-08 23:36 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-09 1:58 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-09 14:46 ` Owen Taylor
2003-04-10 6:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-10 6:48 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-11 8:51 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-10 17:37 ` Jan D.
2003-04-11 8:51 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-11 12:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-11 12:53 ` Jan D.
2003-04-11 13:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-11 14:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-11 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-11 15:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-12 3:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-12 8:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-12 11:58 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-12 14:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-12 14:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-13 11:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-15 1:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-15 1:31 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-15 1:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-15 7:18 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-15 13:01 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-16 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-17 3:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-17 4:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-11 15:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-11 16:30 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-11 16:55 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-11 20:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-11 21:33 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-12 0:05 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-12 0:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-12 2:11 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-11 19:09 ` NEWS and invisible text Stefan Monnier
2003-04-14 23:09 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-21 0:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-11 16:36 ` Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-11 17:07 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-11 17:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-11 21:13 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-12 17:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-11 13:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-11 16:13 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-12 17:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-10 17:33 ` Jan D.
2003-04-02 12:56 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-04-02 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-03 1:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-03 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-02 9:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-28 18:12 ` Jan D. [this message]
2003-03-28 22:25 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-03-28 22:35 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-03-29 17:06 ` Jan D.
2003-03-26 16:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-26 18:32 ` Jan D.
2003-03-27 19:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-01 19:29 ` Kai Großjohann
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2003-03-27 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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