Re: scrollbar display options

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Drazen Kacar <dave arsdigita com> writes: 
> I never looked into what libglade actually does, so this might be
> completely missing the target, but just maybe:
> 
>   If libglade can be used by an application to build UI on the fly, would
>   it be possible to have several appearances based on the locale? The
>   default one should be without hardcoded or special cosmetic stuff, so it
>   would look OK in all situations, but the translators could be able to
>   specify a different widget placement for their locale. I don't know if
>   accessibility issues prevent this.
>

Conceivably this could be done, though I'd worry that it'd be too much
work for translators. It'd be worth seeing what Windows apps usually
do for i18n, etc., since their GUI builders all use fixed placement.
 
> Any tutorial or introductory material on accessibility?

Quite a bit of stuff on http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

> > Basically you can't ever assume any sizes are constant... we try to
> 
> Yes, I can. X server has no way to advertize resolution change. :-P
> And even if that bug gets fixed, I'll claim conformance to the older
> version. :-)
> 

:-P

Havoc