Re: Scrollbar thumbs

[joakim@verona.se]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I guess it is just that these GUI toolkit people usually are trained to
>> deliver good looking and pixel-precise artwork and in consequence might have
>> some difficulties to imagine how it can be "pretty much impossibe" for some
>> editor to know how many lines it is actually displaying (or anyway that such
>> editor would still want to use their scrollbars).
>
> No, sadly, it is really due to dogma: your above explanation would make
> perfect sense, but in practice, even after showing them our problem,
> they still insist that it would be wrong for them to remove the chunks
> of code that enforce the "scrollbar metaphor" by preventing the client
> from getting the events that indicate that the user wants to move the
> thumb's bottom further down than the scrollbar's own bottom.
>
>
>         Stefan
>

I dont use scrollbars, so I dont really know, but would it be possible
to subclass the gtk scrollbars to achive our desired behaviour?
-- 
Joakim Verona