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A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

179 points · 118 comments · tybulewicz

  1. mrob · · focus · HN ↗
    IMO, "scroll here" should be the default action for clicking on a scrollbar. There are already good keyboard shortcuts for page up and page down, but there cannot be a keyboard shortcut for "scroll here". It's wasting the capability of the mouse to duplicate keyboard functionality when you could be benefiting from unique mouse-only functionality.

    GTK gets this right, and Qt does not.

    1. danadam · · focus · HN ↗
      > IMO, "scroll here" should be the default action for clicking on a scrollbar.

      > and Qt does not.

      Isn't that what middle click does in Qt?

      1. mrob · · focus · HN ↗
        Thanks, that does indeed do "scroll here". Now to figure out how to swap the left click and middle click functionality...
        1. garciansmith · · focus · HN ↗
          In KDE's system settings there's a "Clicking in scrollbar track" setting under General Behavior in the Workspace section.
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