Re: scrollbar display options

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

<skip pobox com> writes:

> I notice that there are no options controlling scrollbar display in the 2.0
> api.  I think it would be useful to allow programmers (and users) to specify
> how they want the three elements of the scrollbar.  Here's some bad ascii
> art to demonstrate the three obvious possibilities for GtkHScrollbar:
> 
>     <----------------[||]-------------->
> 
>     ----------------[||]--------------<>
> 
>     <>----------------[||]--------------
> 
> If anyone remembers NeWs, you could also have:
> 
>     ----------------<[||]>--------------
> 
> I'm new to Gtk, but a client just asked for this flexibility today.
> 
> If I was to implement something, might it be accepted into the source or is
> such an option out of the realm of possibility?

I think the NeWs options is not going to fly, but we do have plans
for making the other possibilities theme selectable via style
options.

(Actually, you also see

 <>--------[||]------------<>     [ BeOS ]
 <>--------[||]------------->     [ KDE 2 default theme ])

Regards,
                                        Owen