Re: Flipping for scrolled windows

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir technion ac il> writes:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:47:51AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> >
> > > > Another patch I've had sitting around for a while. This adds
> > > > directional flipping to GtkScrolledWindow, so the scrollbars
> > > > appear on the opposite side for RTL languages.
> >
> > > Those who loved NextStep know the only sane place for the scroll bar is
> > > on the left - or at the bottom for vertical CJK :)
> 
> What is the reason for the scroll-bar to be on the left?

Straying off-topic, the reason to prefer the placement of the
scrollbar on the left (especially for terminal windows and the like),
is if I have two overlapped windows:

 +-------------------+
 | $                 | 
 | $ ls  +---------------+
 | asdf  |               |
 # asfass|               |
 # asdfdd|               |
 #       #               |
 #       #               |
 #       #               |
 #       #               |
 |       #               |
 |       #               |
 +-------|               |
         |               |
         +---------------+

I don't have to choose betwen seeing the scrollbar or the beginning
of the lines on the window beneath. The beginning of the line is
usually vastly more sigificant than then end of the line.

If you have:

 a) click to focus
 b) multiple scrollbars within one window

Then this doesn't matter so much.

Regards,
                                        Owen