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Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency
From: |
grischka |
Subject: |
Re: gtk scroll bar deficiency |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:46:04 +0200 |
> The size and position of the thumb is a bug. But it's a bug which is only
> present with some toolkits because those toolkits make it particularly
> difficult for Emacs to do it right. So difficult that nobody has been able
> to do it yet.
Cool, like in 'Sleeping Beauty'. Who is going to kiss the lady?
> For Xaw3d I tried to do it in Emacs, with lots of work I got
> a very mixed result. Then I turned to the Xaw3d code and I fixed
> the whole thing by removing three lines (lines which are absent
> from Xaw, I should mention). Gtk/Motif and other toolkits enforce
> similar constraints for no technical reasons: just ideological ones.
Maybe your overestimating. It wasn't likely done to make your life
harder or anyone's.
> If these ideological
> reasons had to do with freedom and ethics, I could respect them,
> but GUI-dogma is not something for which I have any respect. Sorry.
>
> Stefan
Come on, it's not GUI-dogma. It's just that they want their
work of art to look exactly the same on everyone's computer.
--- grischka
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