Re: All widgets except the scroll bar uses GTK?

[Dieter Wilhelm]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> I think --with-toolkit-scroll-bars is the the default.  I know that I
>>> had to explicitly override this default in the past, since I don't
>>> like the stupid completely unergonomic GTK+ default scrollbar (you
>>> can't switch forward and backward direction without moving the mouse,
>>
>> Maybe I only know GTK scroll bars (under Emacs), could you please
>> explain how to switch between the directions without moving the
>> mouse?
>
> Left mouse button scrolls forward, right mouse button backward.
> Regardless where the current position of the "slider" is.
>

>>> you can't scroll through a complete file without needing to reseat the
>>> mouse in between, you can't control the scroll amount).
>>
>> You mean that one can more precisely control the amount of scrolling
>> with respect to how far on clicks away from the tool bar handle?
>
> No, nothing to do with the handle (there is none): that would require
> reseating the mouse during a scrolling action.
>
> No, the scrolling size is controlled by the vertical position of the
> click: a click with the left mouse button moves the line where the
> click occured to the top of the screen.  A click with the right button
> moves the top of the screen down to where the click occured.

I've never seen these functionalities, I must conclude that without
additional ./configure options (as you've mentioned) one gets the
toolkit scroll bars.

Thank you for the hint.

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany