Re: Scrollbar position

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> Hello All,
>
> I am more than certain that the topic of "scrollbar position" (left vs right) 
> has been beaten to death in the past (I have not been a member of this thread-forum until 
> just two days ago when I joined, but I can only imagine).
>
> **So I will state it now so everyone knows my position: I think it is pretty 
> cool that the scrollbars are on the left, in-fact, I don't really have a 
> problem with it.**
>    
Fine :) given that I can respond.
> However,
>
> Is there a way to change them from left to right. A user preference? 
> Personally, I think this should be an option on Mac OS X as well, but I doubt 
> that will ever happen. If it was an option on GNUstep then it is something of 
> which I should be aware.  I am absolutely fine; however, if it is not an option 
> and this Left Handed Scrollbar is a paradigm that we wish to continue in honor 
> of NeXTStep/OpenStep (the latter I thought accommodated the platform on which 
> it ran?) Anyways. Lemme know!
>    
Exactly. OpenStep on Windows did honour Windows and so do we.

You can write a default NSScrollViewInterfaceStyle .

Generally it is a setting thought to be part of a Theme. If you install 
or create a theme that follows the "CUA" style, like Windows (not only 
the native windows theme but also the Windows Classic theme from GAP 
which is pure pixmap based) will set that for you. The same goes for the 
menu interface style (next / mac / windows).

I guess that on request I can add also a preference  in system 
preferences, but I did not want to pollute it with too many preferences.

Cheers,
  Riccardo