Re: Scrollbar moved

[David Kastrup]

Carsten Weinberg <cweinberg@freenet.de> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> >be a good idea to try them on the left for a while.  It was not mere
> >stupidity that moved them there.
> >
> >  
> its normal for KDE applications that the scroll bar is located at the
> right, as it is true for GNOME, and Windows and Mac applications. That
> emacs defaults to an scroll bar located at the left is nothing else
> than an curious relic of dogmatism.

No, it has to do with the fact that Emacs is an editor.  With
applications that are basically viewers, you don't need the mouse
cursor more often on the left than on the right.

With an editor, you need it on the left most of the time if you are
positioning by mouse.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum