khtml scrollbars and bidi

[Richard Dale]

On Monday 26 July 2004 15:38, Oliver Stieber wrote:
> While you at it:
>
> Have you ever watched s left handed person try to use a pda?
> They cover the screen with there hand reaching over for a right hand scroll
> bar.
>
> It would be nice if the left-right handedness of the scroll bar could be
> configured for left handers too, for PDA's tablet PC's and anything you
> point at with your hand.
I'm a left handed ex-NeXTStep user. If you use a left to right language like 
english, it makes much more sense to have the scrollbar on the left hand 
side. Otherwise, your scrollbar is positioned at 'maximum ragged right' in 
the text. Most text has only a few really long lines, so you lose the 
scrollbar for the entire text, as opposed to loosing the end of a small 
number of large lines. A bad tradeoff in terms of screen real estate.

Additionally, if you use a right to left language, even if you disagree with 
the above opinion about ragged right (or ragged left), I think the scroll bar 
'handedness' should be configurable (as in konsole).

-- Richard