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Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows
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grischka |
Subject: |
Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:45:09 +0100 |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> A scrollbar is nothing more than a bunch of pixels that give
> you some rough idea of where you are (and how much of the
> rest there is left to see), along with some way to move with
> the use of a mouse.
Sounds like a somehow applicable description of scrolling
in emacs, to be honest.
> I believe that confining oneself strictly to some analogy to the physical
> world is just plain dumb. What's the benefit, concretely? No user has ever
> complained that she doesn't understand how Emacs scrollbars work just
> because they "slide off the end". When the thumb slides off the end, all
> users know immediately that it "has slid off the end": they understand it
> completely intuitively. Only GUI-nitpickers get annoyed that it doesn't
> conform to some model.
I have my doubts whether everybody sees it as you see it.
As you say one is not confined to one analogy exclusively.
Also I would not trust a developer with such things anyway.
Other than that I'm still curious to see all that work with
the intuitive Xaw features added on the scrollbar from the
other OS.
-- grischka
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, (continued)
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, grischka, 2007/02/20
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/21
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/21
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, grischka, 2007/02/21
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/26
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, grischka, 2007/02/27
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2007/02/27
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/27
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows,
grischka <=
- Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/28
Re: vertical scrollbar error on MS Windows, grischka, 2007/02/28