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- From: kmo@sae.com (Mike Ovington)
- Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.142004.13476@sae.com>
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- Organization: Software Architecture & Engineering, Inc.
- References: <1992Sep9.235620.25510@spider.co.uk> <oefiyZO00VAt5mSIYY@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Sep10.145345.17065@sophia.smith.edu> <18oc3lINNh58@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:20:04 GMT
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- In article <18oc3lINNh58@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep10.145345.17065@sophia.smith.edu> jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:
- |> >It really baffles me why other window systems have not adopted
- |> >proportional scroll bars.
- |>
- |> What do you mean? Most other GUIs have proportional scroll bars. Open
- |> Look, Motif, Athena widgets, and CLIM all have proportional scroll bars. I
- |> haven't used Windows, but since Motif is styled after Windows, I assume it
- |> does as well. The only GUI I've ever used that doesn't have them is the
- |> Mac.
- |>
- Windows does not have proportional scroll bars.
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