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- From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
- Subject: Re: 2.1 bugs, suggestions. (was Re: 2.1b bug and editorial comment on killing processes)
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- References: <1993Jan19.231538.1313@yvax.byu.edu> <1993Jan20.073222.7078@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:04:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.073222.7078@cheshire.oxy.edu> rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) writes:
- >Suggestions (These are strong suggestions: I have been using OS/2 for
- >3 years now, and these bother me):
- >
- >- You've got to do something about those godawful scroll bars. They
- > were just fine in 1.2, just fine in 1.3, but at 2.0 you
- > screwed them up. They are VERY ugly, and beleive me, that's
- > going to matter to people. Windows is PRETTY, and if you're
- > going to compete with that, you've got to do something about
- > the appearances. The 3D of the windows is great: The icons on
- > the scroll buttons suck. I like the thumb alot, however: the
- > only change I would make is that I'd experiment with putting a
- > small dot or 'scribe line' (like the one in the center of the
- > thumb of the position scroll bar of the Win3.1 media player)
- > in the center of the thumb.
-
- I actually like the scroll bars. It gives you control of how many lines
- you scroll, depending on how far you pull it. In windows, this depends
- entirely on how long your document is.
- >
- >- Ditto with the handling on the title bars. When the window is in
- > the background, it's got a nice 3-d look to the title bar.
- > Bring it to the foreground, and the frame and menu remains
- > 3-d, but the title bar goes 2-d.
-
- I agree.
- >
- >-Dave
- >
- Morton.
-