Re: scroll bar and drop down list usability

[famrom idecnet com (Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero)]

>It increasingly strikes me that scroll bars should be located on the left
>side of windows rather than the right.  The same is true of the button which
>displays the list for drop down list controls.

xterm and nxterm allow that. emacs also does that. At least mine (some by
default, other by config, like the terms).

>Of course I'm assuming a left-to-right language, like english.
>My cursor is usually close to the left side of the page.  Why not put
>commonly used controls nearby?  That would make my wrist happy.

Now you have discovered why I have my panel in the left (and panel menus
open in a logical order, top left to bottom right).

>Even better would be a configurable option for the placement of these
>things.  And there are undoubtedly others I haven't considered.

And arrows in the same place, not one top andother bottom. Some GUIs already
use it... and IIRC GTK allows it with some themes (experimental?). I think
this kind of things (where are the scroll bars, where are the arrows) should
be totally configurable. If is not a great problem in the sense of too much
options, but will help lot of people (not everybody wants things in the same
way, nor the same color).

For me something is usefull when I try to do it everywhere (anybody tried to
scroll with middle button or using a small window in a corner, like Gimp? I
have done many times, and needed a pair of secs to realize that it will not
work).

GSR