Re: Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short

[Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:06, Luc Teirlinck wrote:

>    You have to decide whether dragging the scrollbar to the bottom:
> 
>     - Scrolls to last page of the document
>     - Scrolls to the maximally overscrolled position (one line
>       at the top of the screeen)
> 
> Would it be possible for GTK to leave that choice either up to the
> application or up to the user?  There are plenty of applications were
> if it were up to me I would choose possibility (1).  For Emacs I
> would choose (2), the current behavior.  Actually, for Emacs I
> personally use the native scrollbar, which seems better adapted to
> Emacs' character based philosophy.  This does not mean that I would
> want to use that scrollbar for other applications.  What is a good
> scrollbar for Emacs is not necessarily a good scrollbar for other
> applications and vice versa.

GTK+ apps can already do both - I described how to implement the
second in some detail in a recent mail.

What I'm opposed to is having dragging the scrollbar to the bottom
scroll to the last page of the document, then dragging it _past_
the bottom overscroll the buffer. I don't think dragging past
the end is a meaningful feature to have for this widget.

Regards,
                                     Owen