Erik wrote: > I'm conflicted about the scrollbar issue. One the one hand, being > able > to customize the scrollbar drawing would be nice. On the other, when > that poorly written app becomes unresponsive and scrolling can't > happen, > I think people are much more likely to blame the system than the app > (because users are, by and large, totally clueless about such > things). That's certainly right, but in fact it is very easy to make you GUI unresponsive. Even under BeOS. The scrollbar would just be another point that could be attacked by slow-GUI-writers. ;-) > It also occurs to me that allowing something as basic as the > scrollbar > to be modified from one app to the next could contribute to an > inconsistent UI. Absolutely. Unless unevitable, applications should stick to the standard GUI elements. It will be our task for R2 to improve the existent gadgets and add new ones, so that this case becomes very rare. CU, Ingo