Indeed, they are worse than awful. Of course my laptop has only two mouse buttons. I should stress that I never use XBoard myself, other than testing my changes. It took me more than a year to find out scroll bars weren't actually broken (and I was closer to crying than laughingstevenaaus wrote:I wonder is XBoard is the only currently maintained software that still uses the old X style scrollbars.
Using them makes me laugh a little, remembering my first Linux experiences, and thinking wtf these scrollbars did! If you don't have a 3 button mouse (which i didnt), you are particularly stuffed
). Because I never received any complaints I assumed Linux users like this stuff, or at least know work-arounds for how to deal with it.The Linux driver for my touch pad interprets the right edge of it as a mouse wheel, though. (My Windows XP netbook does that too. This can also be very annoying when you don't know that, btw.) So although I do not have a middle button, I do have a mouse wheel available in Linux!
As the scroll bars where extracting too heavy a toll from my good mood even for testing, I made it such that listboxes with scroll bar now also scroll under command of the mouse wheel, when the mouse pointer is inside the listbox. That makes it actually a pleasure to operate it! (If you have a mouse wheel, that is...)
