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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. 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

  3. 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
  4. Some tweaks for #Firefox on a Linux tablet.

    1. in General preferences under Browsing, tick "Always show scrollbar" to end the game of peek-a-boo.
    2. In about:config, search for scrollbar.size and set it to some number between 20 and 60 (to taste)

    Now you have a #scrollbar you can get a digit on!

  5. Some tweaks for #Firefox on a Linux tablet.

    1. in General preferences under Browsing, tick "Always show scrollbar" to end the game of peek-a-boo.
    2. In about:config, search for scrollbar.size and set it to some number between 20 and 60 (to taste)

    Now you have a #scrollbar you can get a digit on!

  6. Scrollbars too tiny are evil, scrollbars that auto-hides are the absolute evil.

    Do you agree?

    #GUI #UI #UserInterface #Scrollbar

  7. Scrollbars too tiny are evil, scrollbars that auto-hides are the absolute evil.

    Do you agree?

    #GUI #UI #UserInterface #Scrollbar

  8. Dis Masto, tu sais grossir l'épaisseur de l'ascenseur horizontal de #Firefox ?

    Sur Ubuntu, le dock s'ouvre très facilement et il est difficile de se déplacer horizontalement car on a du mal à attraper l'ascenseur.

    #scrollbar #MastoHelp

  9. Did you one morning wake up only to discover your #Slack's web interface now displays ugly browser-default scrollbars even when they're not needed, such as in your lovingly maintained sidebar? 😱 If you're using #uBlock or #uBlockOrigin, here's a custom filter you could enable:

    ! Fix Slack's custom-styled scrollbar
    slack.com##body .c-scrollbar__hider:style(scrollbar-width: none !important;)

    And if you're wondering how to use a more legible font, you could add this:

    ! Fix Slack's font
    slack.com##body *:style(font-family:"Arial";font-smooth:auto !important;)

    Obviously, you can use any font that you'd like and style it further, or you could style any other elements on the page but that's the way to do it and it 💯% works. No need to install additional browser plugins to force custom styles when the one you already use can do that for you, too.

    #hacks #ui #gui #ux #css #scrollbar #font #legibility #browser #plugin

  10. I wish @siracusa used a MacBook Pro or trackpad more regularly — rather than a Microsoft Precision Mouse — because I’d ask if the trackpad reacts to Wristies in weird ways. Like activating the scroll bar to scroll up/down repeatedly.

  11. I'm out of the loop. Why is everyone pretending we don't have scroll bars anymore?

    #UX #UI #Web #ScrollBar #dev

  12. In settings
    ✔️ Always show scrollbars

    In about:config
    widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 25

    #firefox #scrollbar

  13. Given how we f'cked up our children's future
    I start to admit it's maybe just fair
    they destroyed our scrollbars.

    #climatedisaster #scrollbar #meme

  14. @wervice this doesn't really fit with your four hashtags, but here goes …

    A few days ago I began using a web app that works well, in a desktop environment, if stretched wide across two HD displays. The stretch must be careful, for the black borders of the two displays to not fall in the middle of a column.

    The app is more difficult to use on a smaller display, in the same desktop environment, because the developers chose to use a ridiculously shallow horizontal scroll bar. I might attempt to fix this, for myself, with CSS, however I'm not a developer (I really don't know what I'm doing with CSS). Moreover, I shouldn't be forced to hack something as basic, as essential, as a scroll bar. It's excruciatingly poor UX.

    The same web app is, in some ways, much easier to use (in Firefox) on a small Apple iPad, because I can use my finger to swipe horizontally.

    #UX #Alemba #scrollbar #iOS

  15. i will dev an app with a super long #scrollbar and play a music everytime someone use it.
    I would call it a scrollbard

  16. @Heliograph

    Any user interface designers out there know what numsaber of items in a list should trigger a scrollbar?
    Even 60 seems like too many to look through without knowing where you are in the list, let alone the thousands!

    #Woolworths #Fail #UserInterface #ScrollBar

  17. Neglecting the scrollbar: a costly trend in UI design - blakewatson.com

    blakewatson.com/journal/neglec

    In which I extol the benefits of this humble UI control and lament its slow demise.

    #scrollbar #UX

  18. Dis Masto, tu sais grossir l'épaisseur de l'ascenseur horizontal de #Firefox ?

    Sur Ubuntu, le dock s'ouvre très facilement et il est difficile de se déplacer horizontalement car on a du mal à attraper l'ascenseur.

    #scrollbar #MastoHelp

  19. Did you one morning wake up only to discover your #Slack's web interface now displays ugly browser-default scrollbars even when they're not needed, such as in your lovingly maintained sidebar? 😱 If you're using #uBlock or #uBlockOrigin, here's a custom filter you could enable:

    ! Fix Slack's custom-styled scrollbar
    slack.com##body .c-scrollbar__hider:style(scrollbar-width: none !important;)

    And if you're wondering how to use a more legible font, you could add this:

    ! Fix Slack's font
    slack.com##body *:style(font-family:"Arial";font-smooth:auto !important;)

    Obviously, you can use any font that you'd like and style it further, or you could style any other elements on the page but that's the way to do it and it 💯% works. No need to install additional browser plugins to force custom styles when the one you already use can do that for you, too.

    #hacks #ui #gui #ux #css #scrollbar #font #legibility #browser #plugin

  20. I wish @siracusa used a MacBook Pro or trackpad more regularly — rather than a Microsoft Precision Mouse — because I’d ask if the trackpad reacts to Wristies in weird ways. Like activating the scroll bar to scroll up/down repeatedly.

    #Wristies #MacBookPro #MagicTrackpad #trackpad #scrollbar #maybeitsjustme

  21. I'm out of the loop. Why is everyone pretending we don't have scroll bars anymore?

    #UX #UI #Web #ScrollBar #dev

  22. In settings
    ✔️ Always show scrollbars

    In about:config
    widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 25

    #firefox #scrollbar

  23. Given how we f'cked up our children's future
    I start to admit it's maybe just fair
    they destroyed our scrollbars.

    #climatedisaster #scrollbar #meme

  24. i will dev an app with a super long #scrollbar and play a music everytime someone use it.
    I would call it a scrollbard

  25. @Heliograph

    Any user interface designers out there know what numsaber of items in a list should trigger a scrollbar?
    Even 60 seems like too many to look through without knowing where you are in the list, let alone the thousands!

    #Woolworths #Fail #UserInterface #ScrollBar

  26. I wish @siracusa used a MacBook Pro or trackpad more regularly — rather than a Microsoft Precision Mouse — because I’d ask if the trackpad reacts to Wristies in weird ways. Like activating the scroll bar to scroll up/down repeatedly.

    #Wristies #MacBookPro #MagicTrackpad #trackpad #scrollbar #maybeitsjustme

  27. I wish @siracusa used a MacBook Pro or trackpad more regularly — rather than a Microsoft Precision Mouse — because I’d ask if the trackpad reacts to Wristies in weird ways. Like activating the scroll bar to scroll up/down repeatedly.

    #Wristies #MacBookPro #MagicTrackpad #trackpad #scrollbar #maybeitsjustme

  28. I wish @siracusa used a MacBook Pro or trackpad more regularly — rather than a Microsoft Precision Mouse — because I’d ask if the trackpad reacts to Wristies in weird ways. Like activating the scroll bar to scroll up/down repeatedly.

    #Wristies #MacBookPro #MagicTrackpad #trackpad #scrollbar #maybeitsjustme