Intuitive "Popup" Scrollbars

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Mon Aug 18 12:31:03 UTC 2008


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Mackenzie Morgan wrote on 15/08/08 21:53:
>...
> I must admit, on a large screen moving all the way from top to bottom
> of the scrollbar is a royal pain.  I wouldn't mind having easier
> targets.

Mac OS 8 and later fixes this with a much smaller change: it lets you
put the arrow buttons next to each other at the bottom/right of the
scrollbar, instead of at opposite ends. You can even drag from one
button to the other while the mouse button is still down.

KDE does a similar (but somewhat more confusing) thing by having two
up/left buttons in a scrollbar, one at the the top/left and the other
next to the down/right button.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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