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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
