https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92831
--- Comment #3 from Stefan Knorr (astron) <[email protected]> --- "Infinite size" refers to the fact that if you go to the edge of the screen, you can't get any further -- so no matter how much further you physically fling your mouse, you can't miss an item that is to that side of the screen. This is also called "Fitts's Law", as Jiggle said in comment 0. Fitts's Law is commonly applied to important user interfaces items: the Mac OS menu bar, the Windows Start button, the X button of fullscreen windows on Windows. (You may notice that even while the graphic design of these items makes them seem as if they don't extend to the edge of the screen, their clickable area actually does. (The exception here is the Windows 95/98 start menu: it does not respect Fitts's Law.)) In any case, scrollbars have been becoming less important for actual manipulation since the advent of the mouse wheel, touchpad scrolling and outright touchscreen. Now, in many cases they are rather used as indicators. The proposed solution also seems to put cart before the horse: Instead of putting an item that has been on the right ~forever on the left (the scrollbar), it may be a better idea to rethink the position of the sidebar. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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