On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:03:32PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > One thing I'm not all that happy about is the xaw3d scrollbars. I'm > tempted to go back to the plain ones. They seemed cleaner and more > functional to me. I suppose I'm also going to have to think about > what (if anything) I might want to do about gtk as well...
There's clearly a strong retro contingent in the emacs community, but even there, I think a general rule is that -- for better or for worse -- `eye candy matters.' This is especially true for newbie users. For this reason, I think that if there's only one emacs package, GTK is the way to go -- it may have a few rough edges compared to the native scrollbars but it looks _infinitely_ better, and makes emacs feel like it's finally a `real' app. -Miles -- Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose --Janis Joplin
