Re: Scrollbars.

[barny rabbit]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 05:12 -0800, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> Renaud,
> 
> First of all, you're taking the discussion way to personally.  Secondly, you 
> don't seem too objective yourself, either, so I'm not sure you're one to talk 
> about new features being advances or not, since you obviously have a 
> particular preference.
> 
> I would suggest that, if you're so interested in having the scrollbars on the 
> right, that you write a theme which does this for Camaelon. 
>  
> Later, GJC
> 

I agree wholeheartedly with that comment.

I didn't think I was being aggressive or abusive, but then many people
seem to be hypersensitive when using email. No matter what opinion you
express or how tactfully you word it there always seems to be someone
who will take offense.

> --
> Gregory CasamentoGNUstep GUI/Gorm maintainer
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Renaud Molla <renaud.molla@wanadoo.fr>
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:37:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Scrollbars.
> 
> >>
> >> I think you'll find that the systems which have the scroll bar on the
> >> right are also more than 10 years old. There may have been  
> >> advances made
> >> in GUI's in the last ten years, but the position of the scroll bar is
> >> not one of them.
> >>
> 
> First of all, do you really think i'm so stupid i didn't know that  
> there are systems with right scrollbars that are more than 10 year  
> old? This is not a counter argument, you're only trying to shut me up.
> Secondly, who are you to consider some new features are advances and  
> others not? You are definitely not objective.
> 
> I never said that left scrollbars are bad because they're 10 year  
> old, and personally i don't care about it, when i read the mail  
> asking for right side scrollbars, i just thought "hey, but they're  
> already on the right side" and checked and realized they're not.
> 
> It's not about the age of features, the computer window concept is  
> more than 20 year old and it is still the best i think.
> The question is:
> 
> What is the use of copying the "graphical" look and behaviour of  
> something that is 10year old.
> It's all about design, style etc...
> The use people makes of things changes with the time, and what was  
> considered great in the past can be considered not that great after all.
> There are hundreds of examples.
> 
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