NSScroller and borders

[Jeff Teunissen]

The other day, I discovered a bit of difference in how GNUstep and OPENSTEP 
draw NSScrollViews by default.

While porting TextEdit's nibs to .gorm files, I noticed that on OPENSTEP the 
 scroll view was positioned at 0,0, while on GNUstep I had to position it 
at -2,-2 or modify the code to remove the bezelled border (TextEdit uses a 
custom SalingScrollView class for its text view so that it can provide a 
multiple-page view).

(BTW: Other than that difference, TextEdit now mostly runs fine, thanks to 
Alex's work on the new text system -- with only a small patch to its 
handling of a NSPopUpButton [message being sent from the menuitem instead of 
the popup button, an already-known behavior difference]!)

Anyway, this post is to bring up the subject of NSScrollView's default 
border type. From my examimations, OPENSTEP's NSScrollView has no border by 
default, while GNUstep's defaults to having a bezelled border. Besides being 
consistent with OPENSTEP, I think that it's a good idea in general for 
scrollviews to be unadorned by default, and if wanted it should be set.

gnustep-gui itself will not look different if the default is changed, but 
there is a small problem with a few apps that don't explicitly set their 
border type but obviously want one (chiefly Gorm [though I have a patch for 
this] and GNUMail, though there are others). They look a little bit ugly 
until they have been patched.

Should this change be made? If so, should it be delayed until after the next 
release or done now? As I said, -gui itself is clean, but some apps aren't.

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