One more UI nitpick before I relurk...

Am I the only one who feels like we've gone too far with context-sensitive 
cursor changes on the top ruler?  For example, all of the following seem 
invasive or downright confusing to me:

  - the huge swirly cursor on the tab toggle widget
  - the left-right cursor only makes sense for moving margins
  - changing that cursor to a hand while dragging controls is even worse

If I had more time, I'd love to back out most of those cursor contexts and 
*only* use them for the following case:

  - change the cursor to indicate that margins can be moved
  - ensure that the cursor *never* changes state during a drag

This is fairly close to the way the left ruler works now.  

Moreover, now that we have cursor feedback here, we could improve the direct 
manipulation UI a bit more by getting rid of the extra Abi-specific ruler 
widget for margin changes, and just go with the standard UI of making that 
thin light-gray bar draggable instead.  

Paul,
GUI grinch

PS:  There are also glitches with ruler-related status text changes not 
getting cleared in some cases.  More testing needed there as well. 


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