Re: Scrollbar bug on OS X

[Jan D.]

>     PS: The only problem is that those toolkits have the idiotic idea 
> to enforce
>     that the bottom of the thumb cannot go further than the bottom.  
> And they
>     enforce it by hiding the events corresponding to "user moves the 
> mouse
>     yet-further-down".
>
> I can talk with the GTK developers about this.  And also with the
> LessTif developers.  Should I do that?

We already had this discussion, and Owen Taylor said (27 Mar 2003):

>  * Allowing dragging the scrollbar thumb past the end of the
>    trough is something I'm quite hesitant to do:
>
>     - It will look like a bug to the user
>     - Some themes may not be able to handle such a case nicely (think
>       of a theme where the stepper arrows are round circles in the
>       trough instead of being as wide as the trough ... in that
>       case the thumb can't simply be truncated by the stepper arrow)


http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-03/msg00609.html

        Jan D.