Re: gtk scroll bar: upstream bug report

[Jan Djärv]

Miles Bader skrev 2011-07-12 11.04:
> Richard Riley<address@hidden>  writes:
> > > I got the impression that scrollbars is even further away from the
> > > Emacs model nowdays.  The minimum size requirement for the scroll
> > > bar thumb is more common with new fancy themes.  The Emacs model is
> > > simply incompatible.
> >
> > How is it incompatible? There were many positive suggestions in that
> > old thread.
>
> Certainly the impression I got from the old discussions was that it
> wasn't so much that it was _difficult_ to support the Emacs model, but
> rather that they wanted to _prevent_ apps from using such a model
> because they thought it was bad (for the user?).

I think they want applications to behave the same, and the Emacs model is late 
to the game (for Gtk+).  So there is little reason to switch.

        Jan D.