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From: gary@CTC.CONTEL.COM (Gary Bisaga  x4219)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Look and Feel? Or just Look?
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Date: 19 Feb 90 12:39:48 GMT
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In <1463@sragwa.sra.co.jp>, Erik M. van der Poel writes:

	X10R4 xterm scrollbar (a classic)

	 A. The up-and-down arrow button makes it easy to scroll exactly one line.

	 B. Since the up arrow and down arrow are in one area, it is easy to
	    scroll in either direction using mouse buttons 1 and 3.

	 C. It is easy to scroll exactly one page, once the user finds out that
	    the shift key is held down for this purpose.

Perhaps, but I used SunView scrollbars for awhile (as well as, now, the Athena
ones) and, personally, I never can remember whether the left mouse button goes
UP or DOWN.  I found it difficult even to ascertain that I was moving in the
right direction, even though the text itself was scrolling.

I find the Open Look scrollbar to be very convenient; the fact that the up and
down arrows are a short distance apart (about 1/2 inch on my display) is not much
of a problem.  (To me, they're also aesthetically attractive; no "cute"
pseudo-3D-ness that makes for good marketing acceptance but no effect [positive,
anyway] on the interface usefulness :-)

Gary Bisaga (gary@ctc.contel.com)