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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows?
Date: 24 Feb 2014 16:13:28 GMT
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On 2014-02-24, ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> wrote:
>
> Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2014-02-24, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
>>> ErikRS:
>>>> I've been forced to switch to Lion on my newly bought MacPro1.1
>>>> Xeon DualCore 4x3,0ghz, due to the use of specific software that
>>>> requires Lion... - But it /does/ irritate me like ... that it isn't
>>>> possible to have double-arrows in the scrollbars...
>>>>
>>>> Is it in any way possible to get the arrows back again in Lion v.
>>>> 10.7.5...?
>>>
>>> Your knee-jerk reaction against the loss of the double arrows is
>>> understandable. We all find changes in new OS versions that we don't
>>> like. If you are typical user and not a sorehead, you will become
>>> accustomed to the new scheme in a short time and you will forget
>>> that double arrows ever existed. They're a poor substitute for a
>>> scrolling mouse or trackpad, anyway.
>>
>> Indeed. The changes bothered me at first. While I did get accustomed
>> to the changes, they still somewhat irked me until I finally bit the
>> bullet and got myself a Magic Trackpad and learned to use gestures
>> for clicking, dragging, and scrolling. Ever since then haven't missed
>> persistent visible scroll bars or the little arrows at the top and
>> bottom.
>
> You can have the scrollbars themselves back - also permanently

Yes, and I do display them always.
> but no arrows any way...

Correct. Arrows are gone. I don't miss them; but I don't use a mouse
much anymore.

> I can't use a trackpad because of various problems 
> with my hands such as problems with my wrist and partially missing parts 
> of two fingers on my right hand.

That sucks. It's quite a better experience than a mouse, IMO.

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