Re: Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > > [The fringe glyph for this is rather ugly though; it should really be
> > > something a bit less visually prominent...]
> >
> > Are you talking about the 21.2 fringe glyph (a block) or the new glyph
> > in CVS head (small dashes) ?
> 
> The `small dashes' glyph.
> 
> > What kind of glyph do you suggest?
> 
> Just something a bit less visually dominant -- the dashes seem better
> than the blocks, but because there are very many densely spaced dashes,
> they still are quite distracting.

Personally, I don't think I will find your suggestion less distracting,
and I don't think it will be easy to find something which will please
everyone.  

I would guess that people will fall into three categories:

- those who WANT the empty line glyph to be very VISIBLE,
- those who want it to be BARELY visible.
- those who don't want the glyph at all (the default behaviour).

I think it will be impossible to find a glyph which pleases both the
first and second group...

> 
> [Note that I use a white foreground on a dark background, which might
> influence this somewhat]

I still think it will be be best option to make the fringe glyphs
configurable...

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk