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A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

179 points · 118 comments · tybulewicz

mrob · 1790195450 · 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. userbinator · 1790220497 · focus · HN ↗
  Oh hell no. If you think "scroll here" is a sane default, you haven't experienced the pain of jumping possibly thousands of lines in a long document with an accidental click, and no easy way to go back to where you were.
  1. renehsz · 1790246511 · focus · HN ↗
    How about making it configurable system-wide? Except that ain't gonna happen with the insane fragmentation we're seeing in UI libraries
    Y-bar · 1790252992 · focus · HN ↗
    At least Mac OS has a global setting for this (oddly placed in the Appearance section):
    Click in the scroll bar to
    (•) Jump to the next page
    ( ) Jump to the spot that's clicked

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