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BLKNSLVR ◴[] No.44476587[source]
Only tangentially related, and a seemingly lost old-man battle: stop hiding my scrollbar.

Interesting article. Some points I didn't quite agree entirely with. There's a cost and practically limitation to some things (like a physical knob in a car for zooming in and out on a map - although that was probably just an example of intuitive use).

I just recently switched a toggle on a newly installed app that did the opposite of what it was labelled - I thought the label represented the current state, but it represented the state it would switch to if toggled. It became obvious once changed, but that seems the least helpful execution.

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1. msephton ◴[] No.44477296[source]
In macOS you can have the scroll bar always on, globally (using System Settings) or per-app (using Terminal command)
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2. porker ◴[] No.44478159[source]
But can I make them wider? I don't have the precision to hit something that narrow.

(Most of the time I use the scroll gesture on the trackpad to get round this)

3. wpm ◴[] No.44478243[source]
They’re still too thin, and they look awful to boot.