Re: [gtk-list] Re: interface questions/proposals

[Evan Lawrence <evan unix worldpath net>]

Yeah, this is what the XView toolkit does... I actually find it a little
awkward, and most 95 users would find it hard to get accustomed to. Since
obviously a lot of people have different tastes in this kind of thing, I
would have to agree with raster (I think he's who's working on it) and say
this kind of thing should be left up to themes.

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Evan Lawrence

On 18 Mar 1998, Rob Browning wrote:

> Raj Dutt <rdutt@voxel.net> writes:
> 
> > where the scroll buttons are on the bottom.. this may take some
> > getting used to but is really a timesaver. i
> 
> Actually my favorite approach is to pair the scroll arrows together in
> the center of the thumb (or on one end, top or bottom), and have the
> cursor move with the thumb while you're scrolling (by holding down one
> of the arrows).
> 
> This means that you have "one stop shopping" for all scrolling motion.
> For example, if you want to go to a particular location, you click the
> middle mouse on the scroll bar at that location -- the thumb jumps
> there and the arrows with it, leaving the cursor in exactly the right
> position to make fine adjustments with the arrows.
> 
> I've forgotten which GUI did this, but I have seen it before.
> 
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