Re: Scrollbars and whatever

[Tim Moore <tmoore tembel org>]

Steven A. Bergom wrote:
> 
> I know this is probably more of a gtk thing, but, what do other
> people think about the scrollbar widgets (gtk_[vh]scrollbar etc)?
> Personally, I think the scrollbar gets too small and have a hard
> time grabbing it with a mouse so I recently modified the minimum
> size in gtkrange.c so that it wasn't so small.
> 
> Now, should this be an aspect of the widget set that is configurable
> by the user?

Yes! BeOS let you do this, and had a great UI for it. It had a picture
of a scrollbar with a little arrow pointing to one end of the thumb. You
could drag the arrow left or right to make the minimum thumb size bigger
or smaller.

Tim