Re: Scrollbar thumbs

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>         I also find the scrollbar somewhat confusing: When the end of
>>  buffer is visible in the window, I would expect the scrollbar to reach
>>  all the way to the bottom, but it does not.
>
> It does with some GUI and not with others.  In principle it should.
> The only reason for it not to is to try and work around problems when
> dragging the scrollbar thumb, where many GUI toolkits are absurdly
> dogmatic and make it pretty much impossible for Emacs to do what
> it should.

Is it only GTK which is brain-damaged in this area?  Do other toolkits
do the same thing?

-Miles

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