scrollbars [was Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 48, Issue 18]

[Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.]

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Michael Thaler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> It is probably not a good analogy but: In principle it doesn't matter much on 
> what side of the road you are driving. The British probably think it is 
> better to drive on the left side, while the rest of the world thinks it is 
> better to drive on the right side. But there are certain advantages if all 
> the people drive on the same side of the road...
> 
> The same goes for the scrollbars. It really doesn't matter that much on what 
> side of the window the scrollbars are, as long as all applications have it on 
> the same side.
> 
> I think most people that run gnustep applications together with other 
> applications will profit from having all the scrollbars on the same side.
> 
> Greetings,
> Michael
> 
> 
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Is it really important? Im beginning to think that scrollbars are overrated. I 
was playing around with a broken firefox build where the scrollbars 
disappeared. As long as the cursor keys, page up/down and search was working it 
was ok. I actually find it
easier to use the search tool for navigation.

So who cares about right or left scrollbars? Just put it there for whatever 
reason. left or right. make it a user option. As long as there is incremental 
search people will not complain.
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