On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Cyrille Artho <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > I'm with Cyrille on this. Why not go for a global horizontal scrollbar that is always visible and disabled when unnecessary, but enabled when on a row with over-width? Liviu > 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 >> > > -- > Regards, > Cyrille Artho - http://artho.com/ > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. > -- Benjamin Franklin -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
