From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gtk scroll bar: upstream bug report
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:46:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3hehgx2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAC=50j-fC3eCHnfvbEfZLNJ3dNSdjT+8TG+6ceRp2ChyQ2P9bQ@mail.gmail.com
Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> My interaction with GTK+ developers supports this as well. There
> appears to be a fairly strong GUI design philosophy underlying GTK+
> which tries to enforce what they believe are good UI design principals
> and ensure consistency across apps which use the toolkit.
Consistency may be nice, but not everything is a viewer.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-13 5:46 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
2011-07-12 23:39 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-13 5:46 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2011-07-13 6:28 ` Tim Cross
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2011-07-13 11:30 grischka
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