On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 16:47, Adam Williamson wrote: > Another couple: > > 1. If I drag a scrollbar in a GTK1 app, the scrollbar background (with > the little darker grey "groove" gets wiped and replaced with a sold, > smooth grey block. If I then move the cursor out of the window and back > in (making the app non-active then active again), the background is > redrawn.
Confirmed; I had assumed this was an artefact of my (feeble) i815 onboard video! This looks ugly, particularly when a relatively small scrollbar (relative to the size of the list) is moved in a number of small steps :( Interestingly, if you move focus away from the window then back again and click in the box which has the scrollbar, the 'groove' is redrawn. > 2. Again in GTK1, the Mandrake theme isn't very good at doing very small > blocks in scrollbars (what's the little block that represents your > position in the page actually CALLED, anyway?) - in my Cooker mailing > list email folder, the block is tiny because the list is so long, and it > looks ugly - it looks sort of like the groove you get in the centre of > the block when it's long enough to be displayed normally, only rotated > 90 degrees. Not very nice. I'd guess the slider (that's what it's called) is a bitmap which is progressively made smaller and smaller as the number of items in the list gets larger and larger. So, if you have a slider with some sort of non-regular appearance, its appearance is very difficult to control when there are "lots" of items in the list. That said, the appearance of the "very small" slider is strange as it seems to have vertical graphics inside. There are no vertical graphics - just horizontal ones - when the slider is "bigger". (Doubtless some genius will eventually come up with SVG sliders which can be scaled or otherwise manipulated :) Alastair
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