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Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:04:08 -0400 |
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Jan Djärv wrote:
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> Sam Steingold skrev:
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>> Stefan Monnier wrote:
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>>>> before: when the whole buffer is visible, the scroll thing in the bar
>>>> occupies the whole scroll bar (clearly indicating that everything is
>>>> visible); when the bottom of the buffer is visible, the scroll thing is
>>>> at the bottom of the scroll bar. this is also the behavior of gedit,
>>>> firefox, openoffice, gnumeric et al, and I like it.
>>>> now: when the whole buffer is visible (more generally, when the bottom
>>>> is visible), the scroll thing does not reach the bottom of the scroll
>>>> bar - you can scroll down and, as the bottom of the buffer scrolls up,
>>>> the scroll thing reaches the bottom of scroll bar (while decreasing in
>>>> its size). this is the behavior of vim, and I hate it.
>>>> is this change intentional?
>>>> it looks like a bug to me...
>>> I'm pretty sure it's intentional. It's not perfect, but the perfect
>>> behavior (which you get with the non-toolkit build)
>>
>> does this mean that you agree that the first behavior is better?
>>
>>> tends to be difficult to
>>> get with current toolkits because toolkit writers are boneheaded
>>
>> somehow gedit got it right - and it appears to be pretty minimalist by
>> design ("notepad" for gnome).
>>
>
> Depends on your definition of right. The purpose is to be able to use
> the scrollbar to get the last line to the top of the window.
why would I want that?!
to have an empty screen?
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- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, (continued)
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/11
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Ralf Angeli, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Ralf Angeli, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Ralf Angeli, 2007/06/15
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, David Reitter, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency,
Sam Steingold <=
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, David Kastrup, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Sam Steingold, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/12
- Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, Davis Herring, 2007/06/12
Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency, grischka, 2007/06/14