Re: Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short

[Miles Bader]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:47:01PM -0500, Luc Teirlinck wrote:
>    The previous suggestion (from Luc?) about implementing `stickiness'
> 
> That was one of Kai's suggestions.  My point of view is that trying to
> use scrolling with mouse-2 in large buffers for precision work quite
> simply does not work.  I use mouse-2 to get more or less the position
> I want.  Most of the time that is good enough.

YEah, I agree -- scrollbar dragging is a rough control at best, so it's
really only important that it be close enough to make people happy.

I think that the beginning- and end- of buffer are special cases however, so
it's reasonable to pay a bit of extra attention to them, and that `squishy
thumb + sticky-point at the last-line-of-buffer-last-line-screen' method
would very naturally meet all the various goals though.

-Miles

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