Post #1920700

2026-05-03 12:07 UTC

@aligorith @tj Changed from "click to go up/down a page" (i.e. mostly pointless) to opening up "click anywhere to scroll there" (which is what a few enlightened designs do) Don't – if I want to go to a specific place, I can drag the thumb. Clicking the shaded area should be the equivalent of pressing PageUp/PageDown keys on the keyboard (this is something that they screwed up in the "modern" Windows UI).

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@aligorith@mastodon.nz 2026-05-03 12:33

@jernej__s @tj The problem though is that as the thumb starts getting smaller, it becomes harder to hit it to drag. Then you're annoyed that you first have to make a big movement over to the scrollbar, and then also all that muscle tension trying to hold down your pointing device and carefully drag that thing. IME, it's way faster and less annoying really to just click in the rough zone you need, then drag up and down (preferably with some of those control gain ladders with indicators - e.g. see some Houdini demo videos where they're playing with the sliders). Experiencing a scrollbar like this is what changed my mind about them a lot I gotta admit It went from: "why do we have these big bulky things", to, "oh, that's like a little visualization of my viewing area relative to the whole space".

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