Hi all,

I generally don't like MacOS/Wintel type GUIs and their conventions, but one thing that I do like that would be could to add to MorphOS (MUI, actually) is the ability to hold the mouse button down in the empty portion of a scrollbar and have it automatically move down quickly, one page at a time.

Did I describe this properly?

Travis

> Did I describe this properly?

You did. But please, MorphOS developers, don't. I really don't like this and I think scrolling by mousewheel is always faster.

The beauty of MUI is that it is customizable; it could be off by default -- for you and your mousewheel -- and selectable -- for me and my lowly two-button mouse.

TJH

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I like that, and admit I got used to it by many years of using other certain "inferior" operating systems. Actually, I prefer page down to regular scrolling, be with keyboard os mouse driven. What I always avoid is the lame clicking of the scrollbar arrows that many people find the only way of scroling (?!).

It's practical, and non intrusive: Clicking on empty scrollbar space does nothing as of yet, so it can't be confused with anything else.

Sorry Travis, maybe I misunderstood.... but if I click in the empty scrollbar of OWB or of a window in list mode the page move down of a page at time yet. Yes, you loose the scroll effect but.. Howewer, past release of MUI had a scroll effect when you change from a settings page to another. So, it should be a nice an easy (?) feature to add as normal behaviour, switchable.

Yes, it pages down for every click you make in the empty spot. The part I'd like borrowed from other operating systems is when you keep the mouse button held in, it continues to page down until it reaches the mouse position. Sort of one click FAST scrolling!

Again, make it switchable.

Travis

Now I understood! I'm not a great Win/Mac user.... I've never noticed this feature. really!

I guess it's ok, as long as you don't request other Microsoft Windows style scrollbar behavior

I like the guy's comments on scrollbars and their behavior except for this:

"Because the scroll blob is proportional, you would expect the scrollbar to be proportional too; as such, the only correct behaviour when clicking inside the scrollbar is 'jump to here.' The incorrect, inconsistent, annoying and obnoxious outcome is 'move one set arbitrary distance down/up.'"

How do I know what part of the document I want to jump to? I believe I'd be clicking all over the scrollbar just guessing where I want to be. It's pretty obvious that this "arbitrary distance" is really equal to "page up/page down," which is quite logical.

The only other behavior I'd like modified is the size of the scroll blob (to borrow the author's lingo). Especially in file requesters with hundreds files, the blob can become just a sliver and it becomes nearly impossible to grab and move around. Perhaps a set minimum size of at least the size of the font in the requester...

TJH