From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: grischka <grishka@gmx.de>, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scrollbar thumbs
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:59:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvdhp13al.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF29994.4040508@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:23:32 +0100")
>> 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.
> Wouldn't that imply using just the features that the least able toolkit
> provides? The native scrollbar does things that can't be done in Gtk+ for
> example (not just overscroll, keybindings as well).
I don't think so. It just means to centralize the workarounds (which
mostly have to do with how the thumb size and position are computed and
where/when they're updated) without impacting anything else of
the functionality.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-05 13:59 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 [this message]
2009-11-05 15:16 ` grischka
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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