begin  quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Thu, May 15, 2008 at 07:10:47PM -0700:
> On May 15, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> 
> >I'm thinking about submitting this as a bug.
> 
> Don't forget, you have to have a limit on how small you shrink the  
> scroll bar, and if your display area is small enough and the data  
> large enough, you could conceivably end up with a scroll bar that's  
> one pixel high, or invisible, depending on rounding, and then your  
> scroll bar is practically useless.


I've seen this (one pixel scroll bar).  Of course, with standard X*
scroll controls, this isn't a problem, because you don't (by default)
click-and-drag, you right or left mouse-button.

* or is this just xterm behavior? Motif?

> No matter how small you'd like it to be, you still have to be able to  
> hit it with the pointer.

Or change the default behavior you expect from the GUI.

> The other side of this is that the amount of scrolling per pixel of  
> scroll bar motion is also proportional to display/actual size.  This  
> usually seems to work as expected, even if the scroll bar has shrunk  
> to its minimum size, so there's at least some feedback.

Scrollwheels actually begin to be useful...

-- 
I suppose I can get zoom-screen capability in X11 with KP+/-.
Stewart Stremler


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