Re: Position of scroll bars

lördag 11 november 2006 00:32 skrev Luciano Montanaro:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 21:31, Daniel Ehn wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is it possible to change the general position of all scroll bars from the
> > right hand side to the left hand side? It would feel more natrual this
> > way if you're using a left handed mouse. Also it's quite important to be
> > able to do this if you're using some sort of touch screen.
> >
> > The mouse pointer should change it's shape too, from "coming in from the
> > right" to "coming in from the left"?
>
> I think it is possible by writing a custom style, at least for standard
> widgets like scrollviews. If I remember correctly, there was a "NextStep"
> like style that had the bar on the left. and, oh, maybe in right-to-left
> locales the bar is on the left, but that is probably a bit too extreme,
> even for us lefties.
>
> Luciano

You're right: styles. Right-to-left locales... no, definitely not an option. 
But that sound strange if this depend on from which direction you're reading, 
it has nothing to do with it. Anyway, why not having this as a standard 
option for styles like the buttons for window decorations?

/Daniel