I have gnome 2.32 on Ubuntu Natty 11.04. It has a "feature" that is driving me crazy enough that I may jump to XFCE or LDX if one of those will get me away from it.
In prior versions of Gnome, horizontal and vertical scrolling are accomplished with the traditional scroll bar, which is adjacent to the window being scrolled. The scroll bar is always there and runs the length or height of the window. To use it you click in the scroll bar; where you click and how determines the result you will get. I now see a new scrolling widget in some applications, e.g. evince. Others (mercifully) don't show it and retain the scroll bar, e.g. Firefox. The new widget looks like it was designed for mobile phones and other real estate challenged devices. It is a small disappearing tab with an up arrow on the top and a down arrow on the bottom (for vertical scrolling). You can click on the up or down arrow, or grab the slider and move it appropriately. The new widget is much smaller than the traditional scroll bar, making it harder to use. It also disappears when you aren't using it. Its location is marked by an even smaller colored blob somewhere along the appropriate edge of the window. So to use the new widget, you must first locate the color blob, then slide across it from the window out across the boundary. That makes the widget show up. Only then can you click appropriately. Memo to Linux devs: My desktop and laptop are not real estate challenged. You do not need to provide me with work-arounds for real estate challenged devices on my laptop or desktop. All those work-arounds do is get in my way. This is one of several reasons I refuse to use Unity (Canonical's brain dead home-brew interface which replaces Gnome unless you specify it at log-in time). My question is, how do I get rid of the new scroll widget, and get all my apps to use the traditional scroll bar? Thank you. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
