Now, moving on to the actual problem at hand. On top of that, I dislike touchpad scrolling, so on laptops I’m pretty much confined to the arrow keys and the actual scrollbar itself. Sure, mouse wheels and the like have reduced the significance of the arrows considerably, but I still sometimes find myself using them. BeOS already knew this, and who are we to argue with what is probably the best operating system of all time? In all seriousness, the reason grouping them is better is that it reduces the amount of mouse movements you need to make when scrolling. There is only one correct way of displaying the scrollbar arrows: grouped. Oh, and I base it on absolutely no evidence whatsoever.įinally, the issue of the scrollbar arrows. Yes, any system that uses the latter setting is wrong. The former outcome indicates that the computer thinks I’m smart, while the latter indicates that the computer gives me a reassuring pat on the back, thinking “I know what’s best for you, now shut up”. The incorrect, inconsistent, annoying and obnoxious outcome is “move one set arbitrary distance down/up”. Because the scroll blob is proportional, you would expect the scrollbar to be proportional too as such, the only correct behaviour when clicking inside the scrollbar is “jump to here”. Clicking inside the scrollbar, but outside of the blob, can have two different outcomes, depending on system settings and operating system used: the right one, and the wrong one. Then there’s the issue of scrollbar behaviour. For me personally, the blob’s most memorable role is that it serves as a sort of taunting reminder of just how much more illegible scientific drab I have to wade through during studying. As most of you will know, the scroll blob is proportional the smaller it is, the larger the document you’re viewing, and vice versa. It can also be used to scroll through documents, by clicking and dragging it up and down (or left and right for horizontal scrollbars).īefore we dive into the problem I mentioned, there’s actually quite a few interesting things to say about scrollbars and the scroll blob. In case you’re unfamiliar with my personal graphical user interface lingo, the scroll blob is that little thing inside your scrollbar which indicates where in a document you are. It took me a while to figure out, but I finally know when this behaviour occurs – now I just need to know: why?!

When scrolling via dragging the scroll blob, it seemed as if Windows had the annoying habit of randomly resetting your scroll blob to its starting position, which irritated me to no end.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been having issues with scrolling in Windows and its applications.

Windows 10 mouse scroll jumps