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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Minimum scrollbar handle size
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2000-04-26 22:52:22
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Andreas Pour wrote:
> 
> Federico Cozzi wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > The scrollbar handle, in KDE as well as in other desktop environments,
> > resizes itself to show the percentage of the document which is currently
> > visible. It also has a minimum size (to avoid having a 1 pixel handle).
> > The problem is: I think KDE minimum size is too small (it's too
> > Windowish). MacOS's minimum is bigger. Is it possible to increase the
> > minimum size? (no, I am not asking to add a configuration option, just to
> > hardcode a bigger value).
> > What do you think?
> 
> Wonderful idea!  It wastes time having to finesses a mouse pointer over
> a small areas (heck, Netscape seems to make the handle about 3 pixels
> wide in the extreme case).  Minimum should be at least 12 pixels (not
> including the 2-pixel border -- currently it's 5 pixels w/out the
> border, at least in Konqueror).  Heck, people are talking about using a
> Mac-style menu bar cuz it takes 10ms less to use it -- here there are
> real time savings! (according to Fitts Law)

I totally agree with this.

Rich.

> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Andreas

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