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[Gregory Merchan <gregory.merchan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Chad M. Germann <cgermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 17:13 -0500, Gregory Merchan wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Chad M. Germann <cgermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > . . .
>> > Ubuntu should embrace its Unix heritage and move all those scrollbars to
>> > the left.
>>
>> Are you trolling?
>
> I am to Old to flamebate or troll (or whatever it is you kids like to
> call it these days) But I was embracing that oldest of hacker traditions
> of "Ha Ha Only serious" to simply point out that scroll bars on the left
> is not all that uncommon and there is historical president for it going
> back to Xerox PARC and still lingers on some software that is in the
> Ubuntu Repos.

Sorry. I forgot you were replying to someone complaining about a
scroll bar on the left.


>> I remember at least 4 different kinds of scroll bars offhand. Some of them quite painful.
>
> One question how is a widget painful? A widget such as a scroll bar
> simply does its job. How it looks or is of secondary concern as long as
> a person can use it to scroll and it vaguely demonstrates a position in
> a document it is a good widget

When you switch between UIs, or use apps from different toolkits, you
may find that your hand, or your knee, or some other body part starts
to ache after you slam it into your desk thinking, or saying, "Gah!
I'm such an idiot! This is the other kind of scroll bar." All kidding
aside, I'm pretty sure there was one that was literally a pain to use
because of the awkward motor control required. I want to say it was
Open Look, but I don't think that's the one.