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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. timbit42 · 1790555448 · focus · HN ↗
  When you want to go somewhere, the scroll bar doesn't show where anything is so how do you know where somewhere is?
  I've never found it of any use.

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