Re: Small gaps beside the scrollbar

[Jan D.]

> > In order to make resizing consistent, Emacs keeps the scroll bar at  
> > the same width as the character width.  
>
>
> Can't see how the scrollbar with can be a problem. Ok, Emacs let's the 
> user resize the window (contents of the window) in character units, 
> but a (GNOME) window can have *any* size.


Any window can have any size.  But to resize in character units you must 
impose some restrictions.  On the X11 level it is not that hard to make 
the scroll bar have different width.  Internally in Emacs it is harder, 
as there are places that convert to/from pixels simply by multiplying by 
the column width.

> > But the GTK scroll bars have  a fixed width, which only sometimes are 
> > the same width as the Emacs  character width.  Therefore there are gaps.
>
>
> This is not specific to Emacs compiled with GTK support. The standard 
> X Windows scrollbar has the same problem. 


The Emacs internal (i.e. non-toolkit) scroll bar does not have this 
problem, but GTK, Xaw and Lesstif/Motif does.

   Jan D.