Jonas Bentzen made this depressing reply to my little rant about the Microsoft Windows scrollbar stupidity:
From: Jonas Koch Bentzen <jonas.koch.bentzen@understroem.dk> Subject: Microsoft Scrollbar-Dragging Behavior Considered Harmful To: kfogel@red-bean.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:52:18 +0200 - http://sanpietro.red-bean.com/kfogel/ms-scrollbar.html - > If your interest doesn't flag, and I'm feeling particularly malicious, > I might even talk about how the scroll-bar behavior in Microsoft > Windows reveals that the implementor actually wrote extra code to get > it wrong. > the MS behavior is FUCKING ANNOYING > Meanwhile, the other rule applies in every other system I can remember > seeing Well, not exactly! :-) Even Linux users like me experience the problem. For a long time now I've been annoyed by the scrollbar in kfm (the KDE file manager). Then, when I read your description of the scrollbar problem, I suddenly realized that the problem was not my mouse (which I thought -- the mouse is totally dirty inside, so it doesn't really move that well), but kfm. I tried some other Linux programs - no problems there. The problems only occur with KDE programs (or more precisely: Qt). The KDE people have been doing a lot to make UNIX look like Windows (and unlike a lot of "nerds", I like that, since it means that Linux can be a real alternative to Windows), but the scrollbar is one thing they should *not* have copied... :-) -- Venlig hilsen Jonas Koch Bentzen http://understroem.dk/
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