Hi Jean-Marc,
I fully agree with the fact that the scroll bar position should be
consistent with its function.
However, I've never seen any text edition application where there was a
local scrollbar. This seems just a bit odd to me, even if it may be
convenient otherwise (as it may not be useful to scroll the entire text).
Does someone know any other app having such an issue? A typical WYSIWYG
application is different as the width of each element is known, so there
are no surprises that require local scrollbars. For LyX, the situation
seems unique, making it hard to find a solution that is intuitive.
If it turns out to be easy to code up either solution (local/global
scrolling), we can try them both and see which one works best. If not, we
just have to imagine what they look/feel like. Currently my imagination
favors the global solution :-) because there may be several wide elements
on the screen at the same time, making it better to scroll them all at once.
The scrollbar could be local to the element that is too large.
> ...
If the effect of the scrollbar is local, the scrollbar itself should be
local too.
JMarc
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