Re: [Tile-dev] Heads up -- upcoming changes

[Bryan O. <oa...@ba...>]

Damon Courtney wrote:
>     For "The Scrollbar Problem," couldn't you just accept that themes like
> OS X and KDE don't want you to draw element-by-element and just draw
> them as one, big thing when using those themes?  If I understand
> correctly, the problem is that OS X and KDE provide APIs to draw
> entire scrollbars but not smaller elements within them, right?  So, if
> the user has chosen a theme with that limitation, just draw it that
> way.  How many people fiddle with the damn scrollbars anyway?  I don't
> think I've ever changed a scrollbar option outside of -orient.

One instance where it would be nice to "fiddle with the damn scrollbars" 
is in an application like tkdiff, which has a special scrollbar that has 
graphical elements (colored lines) in the trough.

I was experimenting with this the other day and was able to use a 
dynamic photo image in the trough area. It was pretty neat having a 
"real" scrollbar with a drawable area in it.

Admittedly, that's a fairly unique thing to do, and could be done other 
ways (such as how tkdiff does it today...).