Re: scrollbar (again)

[Jan D.]

lördagen den 29 mars 2003 kl 17.03 skrev Miles Bader:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:58:51AM +0100, Jan D. wrote:
> > Exactly what is the difference?  I don't know what "apple/windows 
> > behavior"
> > means.
>
> The `apple/windows' behavior is that the meaning of scrollbar clicks 
> depends
> on whether they are before/after/in the thumb, which results in 
> confusing
> behavior when the thumb moves past the click point (something which 
> happens
> quite often in practice).
>
> The `emacs' behavior is that the meaning depends strictly on which 
> button you
> use, and to a lesser extent where exactly in the scrollbar as a whole.

Ah, I rather think of it as "Xaw versus the rest" as Qt, GTK, Motif, 
Apple
and so on behave the same.  The GTK scroll bar can not be changed
without rewriting the code for it.  The buttons and actions are quite
hard coded.

        Jan D.