[BUG] Preferences hanging on to obsolete classes

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Jul 19 10:30:53 UTC 2002


On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:01:09PM +1200, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> Speaking of preferences, it's only since playing with 3.2 that I have
> realised what a stunningly good idea it was for Smalltalk to put the
> scroll bar on the left.  Everything else I use has scroll bars on the
> right, so familiarity should make the out of the box look better?  No,
> I keep being annoyed at having to drag the mouse a long distance just
> to scroll.  "Modern" isn't always better.
> 
> (Now, how do I get my X Window terminal emulator to put its scroll bar on
> the left?)
 
Write an X window manager in Squeak.

I think that this has been suggested several times before, and it would be
an interesting and feasible project for some suitably motivated person.

Dave




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