Re: TUTORIAL and scroll bar

[Jan Djärv]

Miles Bader skrev:

> Xtk (and ATK for that matter) scrollbars use a very clever and handy
> definition for the left/right mouse keys:  a left mouse-click in the
> scrollbar scrolls so that the line next to the mouse pointer is at to
> the top of the window; a right mouse-click scrolls so that the line at
> the top of the window is next to the mouse-pointer.
>
> Thus you can intuitively and precisely control the amount by which the
> window scrolls due to mouse l/r scrollbar clicks (near the top of the
> bar = "scroll a little", near the bottom = "scroll a lot").

Ok, but should we move Motif scroll bars to the right also then?  They don't 
behave like that either.

David Kastrup skrev:

> GTK is nice, but its scroll bars suck as badly as almost anybody
> else's.  Some years ago I asked on the GTK+ developer list whether
> they would be thinking of some option to put into .gtkrc-2.0 to fix
> that for people who could live without the dumbed-down bars of GTK+,
> but nobody was particularly interested in taking that up.
>

They seem to be content with the current behaviour.  You can't even remap 
buttons, they are hardcoded in the C-code.

        Jan D.