Re: [Usability] Popup Scrollbar Demo

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 19 May 2008, at 14:00, Steve Fosdick wrote:

> On 09/05/08 09:39:00, t_w_ freenet de wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > It has been a while since I posted about the original concept here.
> > It proved to be hard to get across. Now I can offer a Python-GTK
> > demo and a moderated video.
> >
> > GTK feature request:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530413
>
> Didn't OpenLook on Solaris have something similar a few years back.

Sort of.  In OpenLook, the arrow buttons were placed at either end of  
the scrollbar handle, but you still had to drag the handle itself to  
scroll the document.

See §4.2.3 on <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/801-7265/6i1j88fik?l=en&a=view 
>.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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