Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shouldn't vertical scroll bars be on the right side of the buffer > when Emacs is built with the GTK toolkit? GNOME applications > usually have the scroll bar on the right, and the GNOME Human > Interface Guidelines discourage placing it on the left: > > <URL:http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-scrollbars.html>
That talks about "viewer controls". Emacs is not predominantly a viewer, but an editor. That means that one uses the mouse often to place point, and the left border is more important than the right border. For a mere viewer, the right placement has the minuscule advantage that the typical cursor image does not obscur any content. > On Windows (and, as far as I know, on Mac OS), Emacs already places > the scroll bar consistently with the user environment it's running > in (i.e., on the right). I don't consider this an advantage. Anyway, this should not be decided by GTK toolkit use, but at the most by the GTK scrollbar use (I use GTK toolkit, but --without-toolkit-scroll-bars). Personally, I don't think it a good idea to have GTK scroll bars on the right, but then I don't consider GTK scroll bars a good idea, anyway. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
