Re: Scrollbar feel

[Owen Taylor <owt1 cornell edu>]

Per Lewau <perle@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> There is a problem with the current scrollbar. There is no way (that I've
> found) to move to an exact position in one mouse click. In Netscape (and
> presumably according to the Motif standard), clicking button two in a
> scrollbar moves you to that position. 
> 
> You cannot do this with Gtk scrollbars and as a consequence they are not
> scalable. The way they are now, it is too complicated to move to a
> position in a large list. Try adding 10000 lines in the clist example in
> testgtk och scroll down to, say, the 9000'th line. With a single click you
> would be able to do this with very little concentration and very quickly. 
> With the Gtk way it either takes forever or requires a lot of
> concentration (dragging that miniscule rectangle). Either way distracts
> the user from his current task. 
> 
> What is the reason for not following Motif in this case? The Motif way is,
> in my opinion, far superior to the Gtk way.

I doubt there was a conspiracy to make it work differently.
I suspect that it just wasn't realized that Motif worked in that
way. (I certainly didn't realize it until you pointed it out). Patches
gladly accepted...

Regards,
                                        Owen