[Cuis-dev] 2 (no, 3) GUI file-ins for your amusement

[John Pfersich]

Call me old, but Smalltalk-80 had the scroll bar on the left too. Don’t know why it gravitated to the right side of the window, except that other systems had it there.

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> On Jul 13, 2020, at 13:26, stephen--- via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
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> You read from the left (in most languages), so that’s where your eyes tend to go in a document, so it’s less eye-panning to have the scroll bar (the indication of where you are in a document or list) on the left.
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>> On Jul 13, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Philip Bernhart <philip.bernhart at posteo.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> stephen--- via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> writes:
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>>> Hi Luciano et al.,
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>>> Yeah, I noticed the blue bounding box bug; somebody is still assuming that the scroll bar’s on the right
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>> I have no idea about GUI design history, so I have to ask: Why is the
>> right position of the scroll bars on the left?
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>> Thanks,
>> Philip
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