[BUG] 3.2-4652 scoller sausage can obscure top scroll arrow

Jesse Welton jwelton at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Sat Feb 2 19:27:36 UTC 2002


Doug Way wrote:
> 
> Tim Rowledge wrote:
> > 
> > Using the 'normal' scoller look (no offense intended but the new one
> > with rounded ends looks really awful) it is possible to get the scroller
> > sausage to overlay the top scroll arrow, but not the bottom one.
> 
> I wouldn't consider this too serious a bug, as it only seems to
> happen if you open a window with one scrollbar look, then change the
> look preference, and then continue using the old window.  Normally
> people won't be switching their preferences back and forth that
> often...

No, they won't, but it's potentially a very irritating problem with
respect to loading in projects created by people with other
preferences, isn't it?  It's also a shame that 3.2gamma's top project,
providing as it does people's first impression of the system, includes
windows in two different styles, guaranteeing that at least one of
them looks awkward.  Furthermore, their scrollbars don't match the
default alternativeScrollbarLook preference, which means their
scrollbars end up looping really funky if their panes are resized.

Ideally, it would be nice if existing windows could be modified when
the prefrerences were changed, but that's probably too difficult in
practice.  Wouldn't it at least be better if windows would honor the
preferences with which they were created, rather than acting as
awkward-looking hybrids?

-Jesse



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