Re: gtk scroll bar: upstream bug report

[David Kastrup]

Tim Cross <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> My interaction with GTK+ developers supports this as well. There
> appears to be a fairly strong GUI design philosophy underlying GTK+
> which tries to enforce what they believe are good UI design principals
> and ensure consistency across apps which use the toolkit.

Consistency may be nice, but not everything is a viewer.

-- 
David Kastrup