I am accustomed to scroll bars getting smaller and smaller as the
overall size of the text you don't see grows.
At first, I started noticing in Firefox that the scrollbar hits a
certain size and doesn't go any smaller. But then I started noticing it
elsewhere. In my opinion, this minimum size (about half an inch) is far
to large. Is this some setting in gnome? Can it be changed to a more
sane smaller size (maybe about ⅛", or maybe even ½ that)? I realize that
there has to be a lower limit, but I remember seeing the scrollbar much
smaller in size in very long documents.
I got used to the notion that a glance at the scrollbar will show me
just how much of the page I'm actually seeing. As it is, if I click just
above or just below the bar, the bar doesn't move nearly as much as I
expect (even though a full page scroll has just occurred). The amount
that the top of the bar moves (or bottom) is the real indicator of just
how much of the page I am viewing, but that only helps when paging. Just
a glance keeps on giving me the false illusion that there is much less
left to read than what is really there. When I'm starting to get tired
of reading some long document, I am comforted when I glance and see the
scroll bar that large and near the bottom. Then after what should only
have been about 3 more page-downs, I get frustrated when I glance at the
scrollbar again and it has barely moved.
I don't know what idiot thought this was a good idea. And I really don't
care. How do I fix it?
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Ralph
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The sad thing is that the public is so overawed by these things [big
bang and long-age cosmologies], just because there is complex maths
involved. They don’t realize how much philosophical speculation and
imagination is injected along with the maths—these are really stories
that are made up.
--Physicist Keith Wanser, a young-universe creationist and full
Professor of Physics at California State University, Fullerton
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