Re: Scrollbars .. part two

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2001.11.04 16:24 Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> True,
> I have been thinking about that one to.. however, then the scroll-
> while-selecting stuff doesn't work anymore. Unless of course you
> do some gtk+/gnome hacking with the "motion_notify_event" which
> I tried. Ehm it works +/- .. but I disliked the result.
> 
> Some other suggestions from me :
> 
> * A button/checkbox inside the headers entry to show/hide it.
> * Add a GtkVPaned to resize the height of the headers entry
>   (maybe same for the gnome_icon_list -> bloats balsa?)
> * Make the headers entry a scrolledwindow to (will only make
>   it smaller when a lot headers are selected)
> * Display the headers in the preview widget (as mimetext)
> * Smaller font for the headers and an extra option to select
>   the font for "all" the headers : not only the subject which
>   is now the case.


We had a discussion about this when the current message preview was 
implemented. We considered having three scrollable parts, with and without 
resieable panels for each part  but they did not seem very practical. We 
came to conclusion that having one scrolled part is a best way as it 
utilizes the "real estate" best (we did not notice that text selection got 
broken).

How this is really solved in other programs? Would removing attachment 
icons make an improvement?

/Pawel
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Pawel Salek, Theoretical Chemistry, SCFAB, Stockholm
http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/