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Re: [ 101845 ] Pageup Pagedn do not work
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Willem Rein Oudshoorn |
Subject: |
Re: [ 101845 ] Pageup Pagedn do not work |
Date: |
30 Mar 2003 13:02:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org> writes:
> Willem Rein Oudshoorn wrote:
> >
> > In my opinion, navigation through a scrollable area, like a
> > readonly text field, should be handled by the framework. Because
> > if it is not done by the textfield allmost all applications will
> > end up with texts that are only scrollable by mouse.
>
> But the exact method of navigation in non-editable text depends on
> how it is used. Should the up key move the cursor one line up, or
> scroll up a bit?
This question is not limited to non-editable text fields. Somehow
people came up with a reasonable default for editable versions.
> Well, we're shifting the responsibility to the application
> developers. I agree that this has drawbacks since we're likely to
> end up with quite a few applications where keyboard navigation
> doesn't work at all, but providing it in NSTextView prevents the
> applications that want to do it right from doing it.
I am against a solution that will make it harder for applications to
do it the right way.
I hope that there is a solution that:
- Allows keyboard navigation by default
- Is transparent for applications that take over the scrolling themself.
I have not looked at it so I haven't got a clue if this is possible.
Any other solution is, in my opinion, not worth the trouble.
All in all I think this is a rather big useability issue. At least it
is for me. Personally I think GNUstep has too many of these
useability issues and this is a reason for me to not use GNUstep gui
applications.
So I hope to spend some time in tracking down the issues that bother
me and try to solve them. But this process will be very slow :-(.
BTW thanks for listening to my whining and keep up the good work.
Wim Oudshoorn.
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