Re: scrollbar display options

[Nils Philippsen <nils redhat de>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 skip pobox com wrote:

> I notice that there are no options controlling scrollbar display in the 2.0
> api.  I think it would be useful to allow programmers (and users) to specify
> how they want the three elements of the scrollbar.  Here's some bad ascii
> art to demonstrate the three obvious possibilities for GtkHScrollbar:
>
>     <----------------[||]-------------->
>
>     ----------------[||]--------------<>
>
>     <>----------------[||]--------------

I've also seen these:

      <----------------[||]-------------<>

      <>---------------[||]-------------->

This is also thinkable:

      <>---------------[||]-------------<>

>
> If anyone remembers NeWs, you could also have:
>
>     ----------------<[||]>--------------

Or [bloat] this:

      <>--------------<[||]>------------<>

I think that no theme should have one of them hard-coded, instead they
should be changeable via gtkrc or methods of the scrollbar. The themes
would just define defaults then.

Nils
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