Post #1920701
2026-05-03 12:33 UTC
@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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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange 2026-05-03 12:39
@aligorith @tj On classic Windows scrollbars you can right-click the shaded area if you want to move the thumb directly. I often use the shaded area to page up and down, and scrollbars that do anything else annoy me to no end.