GTK+ questions

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Um. I dare you to find a normal user, give him an Athena app with a vertical scrollbar as in "xterm -rightbar -sb", and get him to move the scrollbar to where he wants it to go without unpleasant womaning. It *just* *doesn't* *work* IME, because A) button 2 behaves the way button 1 behaves in all other widget sets B) button 2 is usually harder to press than button 1 or button 3. You should not underestimate the role of muscle memory in how most people deal with UIs.

Nope. To use an Athena scrollbar in the way you want, you have to activate the window, move the pointer on top of the scrollbar, and press button 1 or button 3, depending. To use a scroll wheel to scroll a window up-down, you activate the window, then move the wheel. Less movement is required, making it more efficient.

Height sensitive? I don't know for sure.

I think you can do this, but it'd be really really annoying and nobody else wants to do it. It'd completely break the GNOME HIG, for instance.

Win32 is fairly different from X, and may or may not allow this. I don't know; almost all my GTK apps are running on X.

be a similar option in GNOME somewhere.

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