From: "grischka" <grishka@gmx.de>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
joakim@verona.se, "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Scrollbar thumbs
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:16:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A824EDEE30914138A68236FA21190C56@editkapc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr5se3tk2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> In any case, given how widespread the problem is, it's clear that we
> can't expect the toolkit to adapt to Emacs. And since nobody has found
> a way yet to make Emacs DTRT, all we can do is provide various
> workarounds, which is what we've done until now. But what I suggest is
> that instead of each toolkit backend providing its own workaround, we
> should implement the workarounds in the generic code and even implement
> several of them and let the user choose which one suits him best.
>
>
> Stefan
I guess it is a good idea. If you want to get rid of stuff, throw it
all in one place, first.
Seen that nowadays the gui-dyslexics tend to become a more rare species
and the generation simply tends to loose the ability to understand
that a non-linear, moreover non-contiguous and even non-complementary
geometrical relation between scrollbar and scrollable content can be
anything else than an accumulation of design flaws.
--- grischka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-05 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 10:41 Scrollbar thumbs (was: Customizing the mode line) grischka
2009-11-02 11:21 ` Scrollbar thumbs Miles Bader
2009-11-03 0:48 ` grischka
2009-11-03 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-04 0:09 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-04 9:51 ` grischka
2009-11-04 11:18 ` joakim
2009-11-04 19:29 ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-04 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-05 1:18 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-11-09 23:14 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-11-05 9:23 ` Jan D.
2009-11-05 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-05 15:16 ` grischka [this message]
2009-11-05 15:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-05 15:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-11-05 16:07 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-05 23:55 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-06 0:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-06 3:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-06 4:37 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-06 8:42 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-06 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-02 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 0:32 ` grischka
2009-11-03 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 5:37 ` grischka
2009-11-03 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 21:10 ` grischka
2009-11-03 23:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 10:02 ` joakim
2009-11-05 9:21 ` Jan D.
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-07 11:50 grischka
2009-11-07 16:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-11-07 17:47 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-03 16:36 grischka
2009-11-03 17:13 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-30 11:18 Customizing the mode line Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-30 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-31 6:09 ` Manoj Srivastava
2009-10-31 20:38 ` Scrollbar thumbs (was: Customizing the mode line) Stefan Monnier
2009-11-01 3:11 ` Scrollbar thumbs Miles Bader
2009-11-02 6:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-02 7:41 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-02 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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