Re: Lua is not acronym

[Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@...>]

On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:53 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 16:09, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
> > <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > > > Giving a link to http://www.lua.org/about.html#name is not good
> > > > enough, as required information there is surrounded by a lot of  
> > > > other
> > > > text.
> >
> > > That's a gripe I have with all browsers I know: they do not show  
> > > that text
> > > at the top of the page apparently because they don't want to show  
> > > empty
> > > space at the bottom.
> >
> > As I get it, browsers just "don't know" that there should be empty
> > space at the bottom.
>
> Toolkit scrollbar semantics of GTK+ disallow showing empty space at  
> the
> bottom.  The respective callbacks are not called when you try  
> scrolling
> further.

I feel your gtk pain.  I recently moved to Qt from gtk and it was made  
a world of difference to my productivity and sanity

wes