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  1. Nearly a year later, I find myself going back to this post and adding its settings to get a sane #scrollbar on #Firefox.

    It's annoying that despite Mozilla dropping Motif for GTK+ in their browser back when they open-sourced their browser, they still didn't consider maybe using the native UI widgets that GTK+ provided?

    My chosen GTK+ emulates a nice retro OS/2 theme, which is actually rather quite usable on a #tablet #touchscreen. It's not the classical Motif UI of historical Unix, but it's usable. Another good choice would be the classic MacOS UI… or maybe 90s era Windows. Make those a little beefier on a touchscreen and you'd have quite a usable UI for both desktops and touchscreens.

    But… Firefox and Chromium UI devs know better apparently.

    hachyderm.io/@dalias/114773215

    #rant #UI #UX #GTK

  2. Where am I on this page? Nobody knows. I cannot ask the scrollbar
    because it is hiding as a thin ghostly translucent grayness.

    The Mozilla Corporation / Mozilla Foundation's usability and
    accessibility experts must have been on a cocaine fueled binge when
    greenlighting the killing of Mozilla Firefox's scrollbar.

    Or is it the Gimp Toolkit people, the Gnome Foundation and/or Gnome
    Project that are behind this travesty? This idiocy? This abhorrent
    lapse of moral judgement?

    #a11y
    #accessibility
    #firefox
    #gimptoolkit
    #gnome
    #gnomefoundation
    #gnomeproject
    #gtk
    #mozilla
    #mozillacorporation
    #mozillafirefox
    #mozillafoundation
    #scrollbar
    #scrollbars
    #thesaurus
    #usability