Re: keybindings for scrollbars

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Tim,
> > > > 
> > > > What is the relationship between these key bindings and those defined for 
> > > > GtkScrolledWindow?
> > > 
> > > I think Tim means these to be for the ab[use] case where you are
> > > using a scrollbar instead of a proper scale widget.
> > 
> > not really "abuse", e.g. i noticed the lack of scrollbar keybindings
> > for a non-editable textview with a focusable scrollbar.
> 
> Heh.
> 
> In other words, you are trying to make up for a GtkTreeView bug
> by hacking keybindings into something that shouldn't have keybindings :-)

not really, i'm using a custom keyhandler for my textview now.
however, i still think, that if scrollbars are focussable,
they should support the same keypresses as scales do.
i haven't yet heared a good reason to not add that support.

> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
> 

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